Cap. 1activeordinance

Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance

釋義及通則條例

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s.42

Power to appoint includes power to suspend, dismiss, re-appoint, etc.

Where any Ordinance confers a power or imposes a duty upon any person to make any
            appointment or to constitute or establish any board, tribunal, commission, committee or
            similar body, then the person having such power or duty shall also have the
power—
(a)
to remove, suspend, dismiss or revoke the appointment of, and to re-appoint or
                reinstate, any person appointed in exercise of such power or duty;
(b)
to revoke the appointment, constitution or establishment of, or to dissolve,
                any board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body appointed, constituted or
                established, in exercise of such power or duty, and to re-appoint, re-constitute or
                re-establish the same; and
(c)
to
                specify the period for which any person appointed in exercise of such power or duty
                shall hold such
                appointment:
Provided that where the power or duty
            of such person so to act is only exercisable upon the recommendation, or is subject to
            the approval or consent, of some other person, then such power shall only be exercisable
            upon such recommendation or subject to such approval or consent.