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HONG KONG

Citation, construction

and

commencement.

Amendment of Clause XIIA of principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XIII of

principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XIV of principal Instructions.

Revocation of Clause XVI(1) of principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XVIII of principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XXI of

principal Instructions.

THE HONG KONG ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS 1990

Dated: 22nd August 1990

ELIZABETH, R.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies or other Officer for the time being Administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.

We do hereby direct and enjoin and declare Our Will and Pleasure as follows-

1. (1) These Instructions may be cited as the Hong Kong Additional Instructions 1990 and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Royal Instructions of 1917 as amended (hereinafter called "the principal Instructions").

(2) The Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1988 and these Instructions may be cited together as the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1990.

(3) These Instructions shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and shall come into operation upon the appointed day.

(4) In these Instructions "appointed day" has the same meaning as in the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1990.

2. Clause XIIA(1)(a) of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the date "1985" and substituting the date “1991”.

3. Clause XIII of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the words "Official or" wherever they occur.

4. Clause XIV of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the words "Member of the Legislative Council, other than an ex officio Member or an elected Member," in the first and second lines and substituting the words "Appointed Member of the Legislative Council".

5. Clause XVI(1) of the principal Instructions is revoked.

6. Clause XVIII of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the words "Official or Appointed Member of the Legislative Council, other than an ex officio Member," and substituting the words "Appointed Member of the Legislative Council".

7.—(1) Clause XXI(2) of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting sub- paragraphs (a) and (b) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:—

"(a) the Deputy President; or

(b) in the absence of the Deputy President, the senior ex officio Member

present."