STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1989 No. 153
HONG KONG
The Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) Order 1989
Made
7th February 1989
Laid before Parliament
15th February 1989
Coming into force
27th March 1989
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of February 1989
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Hong Kong Act 1985 (a) and all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation and commencement
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Legislative Powers) Order 1989.
(2) This Order shall come into force on 27th March 1989.
Additional powers of the legislature of Hong Kong
2. In addition to any other power conferred on the legislature of Hong Kong, the Governor of Hong Kong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, may, to the extent required in order to give effect to an international agreement which applies to Hong Kong, and for connected purposes-
(a) repeal or amend any enactment so far as it is part of the law of Hong Kong; and (b) make laws having extra-territorial operation.
(a) 1985 c.15.
G. I. de Denev Clerk of the Privy Council
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