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 * (b) laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the next sitting of the Council after its publication in the Gazette.

(2) The Legislative Council may, by resolution passed at a sitting of the Legislative Council held not later than 28 days after the sitting at which an order is laid on the table of the Council (the “relevant period”), amend the order in any manner consistent with the power of the Chief Executive in Council to make the order in question.

(3) If the relevant period would but for this section expire after the end of a session or a dissolution of the Legislative Council, but on or before the day of its second sitting in the next session, the period for amending the order is deemed to be extended and to expire on the day after that second sitting.

(4) The Legislative Council may, before the expiry of the relevant period, by resolution extend the period for amending the order to the first sitting of the Council held not earlier than the twenty-first day after the day of that expiry.

(5) If the relevant period is extended under subsection (3), the Legislative Council may, before the expiry of the extended period, by resolution extend that extended period to the first sitting of the Council held not earlier than the twenty-first day after the day of the second sitting in the next session referred to in that subsection.

(6) A resolution passed by the Legislative Council in accordance with this section must be published in the Gazette not later than 14 days after the passing of the resolution or within such further period as the Chief Executive may allow in any particular case.

(7) An order made by the Chief Executive in Council under section 31 or 32 comes into operation—
 * (a) if on the expiry of the relevant period or that period as extended under subsection (3), (4) or (5), the Legislative Council has not passed a resolution amending the order, on the expiry of the relevant period or that period as so extended (as the case may be); and
 * (b) if the Legislative Council passes a resolution amending the order, at the beginning of the day on which the resolution is published in the Gazette.

(8) If an order is not laid on the table of the Legislative Council in accordance with this section, it is of no effect.

(9) In this section—

“sitting” (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.