• Royal instructions are formal instructions issued to governors of the United Kingdom's colonial dependencies, and past instructions can be of continuing...
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  • Kong Royal Instructions 1917 superseded the royal instructions issued on 6 April 1843, all additional instructions amending the 1843 royal instructions, the...
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  • Kong Royal Instructions or any Hong Kong Additional Instructions ('Hong Kong Royal Instructions' amending the pre-existing Hong Kong Royal Instructions),...
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    governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions. Upon the end of British rule and the handover of Hong Kong to China...
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    formed the constitutional basis of the colonial government and the Royal Instructions detailed how the territory should be governed and organised. The Governor...
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    on Christmas Eve in 1524, three months after his arrival. As per royal instructions, da Gama was succeeded as governor of India by one of the captains...
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    replaced Hong Kong's colonial constitution of the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions. Drafted on the basis of the Joint Declaration, the Basic Law lays...
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  • has varied: some under the royal prerogative, others by acts of parliament, and some by commission and royal instructions. In India, the Vidhan Parishad...
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    withheld in British colonies and former colonies by governors acting on royal instructions. In the United States Declaration of Independence, colonists complained...
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  • became the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions was issued in 1731 as the Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea...
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    recorded income and payments, maintained records, and interpreted royal instructions; a factor, who guarded weapons and supplies belonging to the king...
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  • The Royal Commission on Technical Instruction was a British Royal Commission that sat from 1881 until 1884 and was chaired by Sir Bernhard Samuelson....
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  • Royal Instructions on 30 March 1985. In conjunction with Hong Kong's first Legislative Council election in 1985, Article XXIA was added to the Royal Instructions...
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    the conquest, the king sent instructions very similar to the aforementioned Ordinance of 1513. In some parts the instructions are almost verbatim to his...
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  • The Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science or the Devonshire Report was a Royal Commission of the United Kingdom that...
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  • replaced Hong Kong's colonial constitution of the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions. The Basic Law lays out the basic policies of China on Hong Kong until...
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    to be seen in its context. And so, although new Letters Patent and Royal Instructions were issued in 1907, and the requirement to reserve certain classes...
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  • 1982, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1), and the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917); however, it may also refer to any other Hong Kong Letters Patent...
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    usually referred to as the Instruções Régias (Royal Instructions) or Instruções Secretas (Secret Instructions) dated 31 July 1751, which a commentator has...
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  • 1982, the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1991 (No. 1), and the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917. The Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 has been amended many times...
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  • Swaine was unopposed and became the first elected president. Hong Kong Royal Instructions was one of the principal constitutional documents of British Hong...
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    University of Melbourne), postulating that the letters patent and the royal instructions issued by Queen Victoria were unnecessary "or even of doubtful legality"...
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  • lieutenant governors to follow Royal instructions and reserve bills which did not align with those instructions. Royal instructions were related to legislation...
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    his politics, Chandos was elected by the Company on 22 April 1680. Royal Instructions were issued on 29 December. Lord Chandos arrived in Constantinople...
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    two fronts. Thirteen Factories The Hongs Tai-Pan (novel) Hong Kong Royal Instructions Hong Kong Letters Patent Hong Kong portal Wiltshire, Trea. [First...
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    ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at Constantinople in June 1692. The Royal Instructions arrived on 5 September and he left England a week later. He travelled...
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  • Prerogative instrument (category Royal prerogative)
    prerogative instruments include letters patent (including most royal charters), royal instructions, royal warrants, and some orders in council. In the UK, the use...
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    prosecuted for illegal acts, even if they were only carrying out Royal instructions. In addition, the Anglican doctrine of passive obedience did not mean...
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    ambassador at Constantinople on 19 November 1633 during the personal rule. Royal instructions were delivered on 14 July 1638. In 1636 he obtained a share of a lease...
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    Alonso Dávila was named his principal lieutenant. Careful to heed royal instructions, three clergymen were included to address the religious needs of the...
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