Off the wire
• 1st LD-Writethru-China Focus: Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect officially starts  • Spotlight: Japan's consumer confidence drops to 6-month low as "Abenomics" guarantees remain elusive  • Russian mortar squads in Far East hold drills  • Russia invents camouflage paste that cheats infrared devices  • China Hushen 300 index futures close lower Monday  • Russia gets more than 7,000 units of new military equipment in 2016  • China treasury bond futures close mixed Monday  • FINA recognizes Chen Aisen and Shi Tingmao as Athletes of the Year in diving  • Chinese shares close mixed Monday  • 19 jailed in multi-billion fraud case  
You are here: 　 Home

Hong Kong Legislative Council announces 2 vacancies

Xinhua, December 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Monday gazetted that two seats have become vacant after Leung Chung-hang and Yau Wai-ching were disqualified as LegCo members.

The two gazette notices, signed off by Clerk to the LegCo Kenneth Chen, were published Monday on the gazette of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government.

In the notices, Chen declared in accordance with section 35(1) of the LegCo Ordinance that the office of LegCo member previously held by Leung, and the one held by Yau Wai-ching have become vacant, pursuant to the judgments made by the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal of the High Court of the Hong Kong SAR on Nov. 15 and 30 respectively.

Leung and Yau used derogatory language insulting the country and nation when taking oaths at a swearing-in ceremony of the new LegCo on Oct. 12. Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and the SAR government filed a judicial review against the decision by the LegCo president to give the pair a second chance to be sworn in.

On Nov. 15, the Court of First Instance disqualified the pair. On Nov. 30, the Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of the pair and upheld the previous ruling. Enditem