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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 2, 1911.
Validation
thereof and to be the law, and may be proved in any Court or judicial proceeding by certified copies thereof, or, by order of a Judge, by the production thereof by the Registrar. Subject however to objection being taken any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this Or- dinance may be proved by the production of a copy of the Gazette containing the print of such Ordinance as passed by the Legislative Council, or a copy thereof purporting to be printed by the Government Printer.
(3.) Any person shall be entitled to inspect such sealed copies during the office hours of the Registry on payment of twenty-five cents for each inspection not exceeding three hours, and to take copies or extracts therefrom for certification by the Registrar, on payment of twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-five words for each copy or
extract.
10.—(1.) Ordinance No. 12 of 1900 (The Statute Law of variances (Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1900) is repealed.
between
Revised
former
scaled
copies.
(2.) The Revised Edition, so far as Ordinances passed Edition and up to the end of 1901 are concerned, is hereby declared to have been the true and only version of those Ordinances, all variances between such Ordinances as printed therein and the sealed copies thereof deposited in the Registry under Ordinance No. 16 of 1886, and anything in Or- dinance No. 16 of 1886 to the contrary notwithstanding; and in so far as there are such variances the Ordinances as contained in such sealed copies are to be taken to be and to have been repealed by Ordinance No. 12 of 1900.
New Edi-
ised to be used in Courts, and for all pur- poses.
(3.) This section shall come into force at the same time as the proclamation referred to in section 8.
11. From and after the date of such proclamation the tion author- Revised Edition shall cease to be the statute book of the Colony up to the date of the latest of the Ordinances con- tained therein, and, subject only to the provisions of section 9, it shall be lawful to use the New Revised Edition in all Courts of Justice and for all purposes what- soever as being the authorised statute book of the Colony in regard to all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council up to the end of the year 1911; Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any Ordinance which may be passed, before the issue of such proclamation, for the repeal, alteration or amendment of any earlier Ordinance after such Ordinance has been printed in the New Revised Edition.
Construction
to former
12. Where in any existing enactment or in any exist- of references ing document of whatever kind, reference is made to an Ordinance which is affected by or under the operation of this Ordinance, such reference shall, where necessary and practicable, be deemed to extend and apply to the corresponding enactment as contained the New Revised Edition.
editions of Ordinances.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 1st day of June, 1911.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 2nd day of June, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Colonial Secretary.
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