Import and Export Ordinance

(1)
The Director may by order
amend—
(a)
Part 2 of Schedule 1 or 2
to the Import and Export (General) Regulations (
Cap. 60 sub. leg. A
);
(b)
the
Schedule
to the Export (Prescribed Articles) Regulations (
Cap. 60 sub. leg. D
);
(c)
the
Schedule
to the Import and Export (Carriage of Articles) Regulations (
Cap. 60 sub. leg. I
).
(2)
The Director shall publish an order under subsection (1) in the Gazette and shall cause it to be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the next sitting day after it is published.
(3)
The Legislative Council may, within the period of 28 days after the date an order under subsection (1) is laid, by resolution, amend the order in any manner consistent with this section.
(4)
If the period of 28 days would, but for this subsection, expire after the end of a session or a dissolution of the Legislative Council and before the second sitting day in the next session, that period shall be extended and shall expire on the day after the second sitting day.
(5)
Before the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (3) or that period as extended by virtue of subsection (4), the Legislative Council may by resolution in relation to an order specified
therein—
(a)
in the case of the period referred to in subsection (3), 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 (3) has been extended by virtue of subsection (4), 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 session.
(Replaced
8 of 2002 s. 5
)
(6)
A resolution under subsection (3) or (5) shall be published in the Gazette within 14 days after it is passed or such further period as the Chief Executive may allow.
(Amended
66 of 2000 s. 3
)
(7)
An order under subsection (1) shall come into
operation—
(a)
if the Legislative Council does not, by resolution, amend the order under this section before the expiry of the period to amend it, on a day to be appointed by the Director by notice published in the Gazette after the expiry of that period;
(b)
if the Legislative Council, by resolution, amends the order under this section, as from the date of publication in the Gazette under subsection (6) of the resolution.
(8)
In this section,
sitting
(
立法會會議
), 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.
(Amended
66 of 2000 s. 3
)