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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
Constraction
as to
24. Where any Ordinance confers a power or imposes a
of provisions duty, then, unless the contrary intention appear, the power may be exercised and the duty shall be performed from time to time as occasion requires.
exercise of powers and daties.
Construction
25.-(1.) Where reference is made to any person of references by the term desiguating his office, such terin shall include to publie
the person for the time being executing the duties of such office, as well as such other person as may be appointed to perform any portion of such duties.
officers.
Construction
powers to
(2.) Where any Ordinance confers a power or privilege, of provisions or imposes a duty on the holder of any office as such, then, granting
unless the contrary intention appear, the power may be the holder of exercised and the duty shall or may be performed, as the case may be, by the holder of the office for the time being, or by any person appointed to act in, or perform the duties of, the said office for the time being.
an office.
Proceedings not abated
(3.) Any civil or criminal proceedings taken by any person in virtue of his office shall not be discontinued or by change in abated by his death, resignation, or removal frour office, but may be eanied on by and in the name of the person appointed to perform the duties of the office,
elticu.
Construction
In other
28.--(1.) Where reference is made in any enactment to of references the numbers of any series of sections of any enactment, or to any part of any enactment, the reference shall he beld to be inclusive of the sections or words mentioned in the reference.
enactments:
and to a
(2) When any particular number of days is prescribed series of days. for the doing of any act or for any other purpose, the same shall, unless the contrary intention appear, be reckonal exclusive of the first and inclusive of the last day.
Measurement
27. In the measurement of any distance for the purpose- of distances. of any Ordinance that distance shall, unless the contrary
intention appear, be measured in a straight line on horizontal plane.
References to time.
Mesning of service by post.
Meaning of writing.
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28.-(1) Whenever any expression of time occurs in any ennetment or in any legal document, the time referred to shall, unless the contrary intention appear, be held to be standard time.
The expression "standard time" means standard time as used in the Colony, that is to say, the mean time of the 120th meridian East of Greenwich, and is exactly eight hours in advance of Greenwich mean time.
(2.) The expression “a.m.” indicates the period between midnight and Boon on the day succeeding; and the express sion p.m. indicates the period between noon and the midnight following; and where in any enactment two sucli expressions occur conjunctively in relation to any specified “suuset OF hours, or in conjunction with the words
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sunrise", they shall be construed to relate to consecutive periods of time.
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29. Where any Ordinance authorises or requires any pocument to be served by post, whether the expression **serve ", or "give", or seil or any other expression is used, then, unless the contrary intention appear, the service shall be deemed to be effected by properly address- ing, pre-paying, and posting a letter containing the document, and, unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
30. In any enactment expressions referring to writing or printing shall include, unless the contrary intention appear, writing, printing, lithography, photography, types writing, and every other mode of representing words or figures in a visible form, but in the case of a book “print- ing" shall not include writing or type-writing.
Nothing in this section shall be taken to apply to signa-
tures.