Hong Kong Ordinances

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ORDINANCE - SECT 9

Chief Executive to convene ordinary sessions of Legislative Council

(Past version on 03/10/1997).

(1) The Chief Executive must convene at least one ordinary session of the
Legislative Council in each calendar year. (Amended 48 of 1999 s. 7)

(2) The Chief Executive must publish in the Gazette the dates on which an
ordinary session of the Legislative Council is to begin and end.

(3) An ordinary session begun in one calendar year may be continued in the
next calendar year.

(4) The consideration of any bill or other business of the Legislative Council
is not to be affected by the end of a session and may be resumed at any
subsequent meeting, but is to lapse at the end of a term  of office or on a
dissolution of the Legislative Council.