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HONG KONG

LEGAL REPORT

DISTRICT BOARDS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1988

(No. 13 of 1988)

Enclosure No.

This Ordinance amends the District Boards Ordinance to -

(a)

(b)

(c)

(a)

2.

provide for the vacation of membership of a Board (other than in the case of prolonged illness) where a member fails to attend meetings of a District Board for a period of 6 consecutive months;

as a corollary of (a), provide that the Chairman of a Rural Committee shall not be entitled to take part in the proceedings of a District Board (other than in the case of prolonged illness) where he fails to attend meetings of the Board for 6 consecutive months;

provide a definition of "meeting of the Board" to exclude committee meetings; and

provide for a District Officer to preside at meetings of a District Board pending the election of a new Chairman.

Before the Governor assented to the Bill in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, the Attorney General advised that he could properly do so.

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February 1988.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

HONG KONG.

Али и

Jamb

Law Draftsman.