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Citation,

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Commencement.

Amendment of

Article XIV of principal

Letters Patent.

Reservations.

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE Presents shall come, GreETING!

Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare Our Will and Pleasure as follows-

1. (1) These Our Letters may be cited as the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1) and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 as amended (hereinafter called "the principal Letters Patent").

(2) The Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1990 and these Our Letters may be cited together as the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1991 (No. 1).

(3) These Our Letters shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and shall come into operation upon the day immediately following the date of such publication

2.—(1) Article XIV of the principal Letters Patent is amended:—

(a) by renumbering the same as paragraph (1) of that Article; and

(b) by adding the following new paragraph:-

"(2) The powers conferred on the Governor by this Article may, save in the case of the office of judge of the Supreme Court or judge of the District Court or the office of Chief Secretary, Attorney General or Financial Secretary and subject to such conditions and restrictions (if any) as the Governor may specify, be exercised on behalf of the Governor by any person authorised, whether by name or by reference to an office, to exercise those powers by the Governor. Any such authorisation, condition or restriction shall be notified in the Hong Kong Government Gazette.".

(2) No appointment made to the public service of Hong Kong before the coming into operation of the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1) by a person to whom a power of appointment conferred under Article XIV of the Principal Letters Patent was purportedly delegated under that Article shall be called in question on the ground that the appointment was not made in accordance with Article XIV of the principal Letters Patent.

3. We do hereby reserve to Ourself, Our Heirs and Successors full power and authority to amend or revoke these Presents.

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