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Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021 Part 6 Section 25 ::(b) fails, or is declared or decided in accordance with any law to have failed, to fulfil the legal requirements and conditions on upholding the Basic Law and bearing allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.
 * (2B) Subsection (2A)(b) applies to a declaration or decision made before, on or after the date on which that subsection comes into operation.”.

25. Section 72 amended (proceedings of a District Council or a committee not affected by vacancy or defect in membership)

(1) Section 72, heading, after “membership”—
 * Add
 * “etc.”.

(2) Section 72—
 * Repeal subsection (1)
 * Substitute
 * (1) The power of a District Council to transact business is not affected by—
 * (a) a vacancy in the membership of the District Council; or
 * (b) the suspension of a person’s functions and duties as a member under section 79(2A).”.

(3) After section 72(2)(a)—
 * Add
 * “(ab) the suspension of a person’s functions and duties as a member under section 79(2A);”.