Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COUNCILS ORDINANCE - SECT 68

District Council may make standing orders

Division 3-Procedure of a District Council

(1) A District Council may make standing orders for regulating its procedure
and that of its committees.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the standing orders may
make provision for-

   (a)  times and places of meetings of the District Council or of a
        committee; or

   (b)  the summoning, notices, keeping of minutes of proceedings of meetings;
        or

   (c)  the voting on matters put before a meeting; or

   (d)  the determination of any matter by circulation of papers; or

   (e)  the preservation of order at meetings.

(3) A District Council must, in its standing orders, provide for the quorum of
the committees appointed by it.