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shall appoint a date for the dissolution which shall be not earlier than 60 days or later than 30 days before the third anniversary of the preceding election and at a later stage to introduce legislation to abridge the time for acceptance of office by elected members Taken together, these measures will remove all the drawbacks. I have described.
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If these changes are acceptable, it is likely that the Governor will appoint Thursday 25 August 1988 as the date of dissolution of this Legislative Council and that the subsequent elections will take place on Thursday, 22 September 1988. The new Council will then meet for the first time on Wednesday 12
October 1988.
fles.
Sir,
The second amendment to the Royal Instructions is to provide that any Bill which has not completed all its stages through this Council shall lapse upon a dissolution.
At present,
the Royal Instruction provides that the consideration of a Bill or other business shall not be affected by the termination of a
le session.
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Although it may be the case that this provision does not apply to the termination of the final session in the term of a Legislative Council before dissolution, the position is not a3 clear as it could be. The matter should be put beyond doubt by amending the relevant provision in the Royal Instructions. unreasonable to expect Members of a new legislature to pick up and complete the unfinished business of the old.
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Sir,
It is
Thirdly, it is proposed to delete from Royal Instructions XXV (2) and XXVII the requirement to include marginal notes alongside each clause of an ordinance. The reason is that the need for notes in the margins cause secretarial and printing difficulties, particularly when printing Chinese texts.
Instead
it is proposed that the present practice of using marginal notes should be replaced by the use immediately above each clause of left margin bold headings. This is a commonly used form in
legislation elsewhere.
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