Chapter:	466	Title:	DUMPING AT SEA ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	14	Heading:	Tabling technical memorandum and commencement	Version Date:

not yet in operation

(1) The Secretary shall publish a technical memorandum issued under this Ordinance in the Gazette and lay it on the table of the Legislative Council at the next sitting after publication.
(2) Where the Secretary has laid a technical memorandum on the table of the Legislative Council, 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 the technical memorandum be amended in a manner consistent with the power to issue the technical memorandum.
(3) If the period for passing a resolution would, but for this subsection, expire-

(a) after the end of a session of the Legislative Council or after a dissolution of the Legislative Council, but
(b) on or before the day of the second sitting of the Legislative Council in the next following session of the Legislative Council,

(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 expiry;
(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. 17)

(a) if the Legislative Council does not pass a resolution amending the technical memorandum, upon the expiry of the period or the period as extended, as the case may be, for passing an amending resolution; and
(b) if the Legislative Council passes a resolution amending the technical memorandum, at the beginning of the day of the publication in the Gazette of the resolution.