Members and provide generally, or in relation to a particular category of
Member, for-
(a) different systems or methods of election;
(b) determination of constituencies and the number of Members to be
returned in respect thereof;
(c) qualifications or disqualifications, as regards electors, candidates
for election or such Members;
(d) tenure of office of Members. (Replaced on 1 July 1994)
(3) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as precluding the making of
laws which, as regards the election of the Members of the Legislative Council,
confer on persons generally or persons of a particular description any
entitlement to vote which is in addition to a vote in respect of a
geographical constituency. (Added on 1 July 1994)
(4) Laws of the Colony may provide, as regards the election of the Members of
the Legislative Council, for the appointment of different dates for voting to
take place in respect of constituencies of different descriptions or election
of different categories of Members. (Added on 1 July 1994)
(5) The provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 16 December
1966, as applied to Hong Kong, shall be implemented through the laws of Hong
Kong. No law of Hong Kong shall be made after the coming into operation of the
Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 2) that restricts the rights and freedoms
enjoyed in Hong Kong in a manner which is inconsistent with that Covenant as
applied to Hong Kong. (Added on 8 June 1991. Amended on 1 July 1994)
ARTICLE VIII – Disallowance of Laws
We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and successors, full power and authority to disallow, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, any such law as aforesaid. Every such disallowance shall take effect from the time when the same shall be promulgated by the Governor in the Colony.
ARTICLE IX – Power of legislation reserved to the Crown
We do also reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and successors, Our and their undoubted right, with the advice of Our or their Privy Council, to make all such laws as may appear necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the Colony.
