Hong Kong Ordinances

NOISE CONTROL ORDINANCE - SECT 11

Placing of Technical Memorandum before Legislative Council

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) All Technical Memoranda issued under section 9 or 10 shall be published in
the Gazette and shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the
next sitting thereof after such publication.

(2) Where a Technical Memorandum has been laid on the table of the Legislative
Council under subsection (1), the Legislative Council may, by resolution
passed at a sitting of the Legislative Council held before the expiration of a
period of 28 days after the sitting at which it was so laid, provide that such
Technical Memorandum shall be amended in any manner whatsoever consistent with
the power to issue such Technical Memorandum.

(3) If the period referred to in subsection (2) would but for this subsection
expire-

   (a)  after the end of a session of the Legislative Council or a dissolution
        thereof; but

   (b)  on or before the day of the second sitting of the Legislative Council
        in the next following session thereof, that period shall be deemed to
        extend to and expire on the day after that second sitting.

*(4) Before the expiration of the period referred to in subsection

(2) or that period as extended by virtue of subsection (3), the Legislative
Council may by resolution in relation to a Technical Memorandum specified
therein-

   (a)  in the case of the period referred to in subsection (2), extend that
        period to the first sitting of the Legislative Council held not
        earlier than the twenty-first day after the day of its expiration;

   (b)  in the case where the period referred to in subsection (2) has been
        extended by virtue of subsection (3), extend that period as so
        extended to the first sitting of the Legislative Council held not
        earlier than the twenty-first day after the day of the second sitting
        in that next following session. (Replaced 8 of 2002 s. 13)

(5) Any resolution passed by the Legislative Council in accordance with this
section shall be published in the Gazette not later than 14 days after the
passing thereof or within such further period as the Governor may allow in any
particular case.

(6) In this section, "sitting" (立法局會議), when used to calculate time,
means the day on which the sitting commences and only includes a sitting at
which subsidiary legislation is included on the order paper. (Added 89 of 1993
s. 36) (Enacted 1988)
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* For the transitional provision relating to this subsection as amended by
section 13 of the Extension of Vetting Period (Legislative Council) Ordinance
2002 (8 of 2002), see section 14 of that Ordinance.

"sitting" (立法局會議)