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Principal Secretaries of State, laws may be made to give effect to

these Our Letters or to provide for the election of the members of

the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in accordance therewith, but

notwithstanding paragraph (3), until the appointed day nothing in

these Our Letters or the said Instructions or laws shall affect the

membership or powers and privileges of the Legislative Council of

Hong Kong as constituted under the principal Letters Patent

immediately before the date of coming into operation of these Our

Letters.

(5) In these Our Letters "appointed day" means the day (or, if

more than one day, the first day) appointed under the laws in force

in the Colony for holding an election in 1995 to elect the members

of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

2.

Amendment of Article VI of principal Letters Patent

(1)

Article VI(1) of the principal Letters Patent is amended

(a) by deleting sub-paragraphs (b) and (d);

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(b)

by deleting sub-paragraph (e) and substituting

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"(e) 60 members, being persons who are qualified

for election and elected in accordance with

laws in that behalf in force in the Colony

and of whom

(i)

(ii)

20 shall have been returned in

respect of geographical

constituencies;

30 shall have been returned in

respect of functional

constituencies; and