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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 11, 1929.

Constitution

of Legisla tive Council.

Official Members.

Unofficial Members.

Provisional appoint- ments in place of Members

absent, &

appoint by any Instructions or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State may from time to time appoint under the Public Seal of the Colony."

"XIII. The Legislative Council of the Colony shall consist of the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor (if any), the Senior Military Officer for the time being in Command of Our reguk troops within the Colony, the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Treasurer of the Colony, and such other persons holding office in the Colony, and not exceeding four in number at any one the, as at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recites] Leiters Patent are Official Members of the said Council, or as We may from time to time appoint by any Instructions or Warrants under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the Governor, in pursuance of lustrue- tions from Us through one of Our Principal Sverdiaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Official Members of the Legislative Council; and further of such persons, -not exceeding eight in number at any one time, as at the date of the emning indo operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Unofficial Members of the said Council, or as the Governor, iu pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.”

"If any Official Member of the Legislative Council cease to hold office in the Colony his seat in the Council shall there- upon become vacant.”

"XIV. Whenever any Member other than an ec officio Member of the Legis- lative Council of the Colony shall, by writing under his hand, resign his seat in the Council, or shall die, or be suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, or be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony to be incapable of exercising his functions as a Member of the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or shall be acting in an office the holder of which is an ex officio Member of the Council, or if his seat become vacant, or whenever any person shall be lawfully discharging the func- tions of more than one of the offices the holders of which are ex officio Members of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appoint in his place some person to be temporarily an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, as the case may be."

"Every person so provisionally appointed shall forthwith. cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is dis- allowed by Us, or revoked by the Governor, or superseded by the definitive appointment of an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall return to the Colony, or shall be released from suspension, or shall be declared by the Governor by au Instru- ment under the Public Seal capable of again discharging his functions in the said Council, or shall couse to sit in the Council as an ex officio Member, or shall cease to discharge the functions of more than one of the offices the holders of which are ex officio Members of the Council, as the case may be."

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