THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.

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F.-General Definitions.

· Gazette” ICAOS the Hongkong Government General

Gazette.

definitions.

Proclamation means, as respects Hongkong, a proclamation of the Governor or of the Gov- ernor-in-Council.

"Definition' means the interpretation to be given to words or expressions used in the Ordinance or part of an Ordinance to which such inter- pretations are declared to be applicable; and the words or expressions are to have in such Ordinance or part of an Ordinance, and in any rules, regulations, orders, or other documents made thereunder, the meanings assigned to them unless inconsistent with the context. "Month” means calendar month, unless it appears from the context that lunar month, or Chinese

moon is intended,

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"Year" means a year according to the Georgian Calendar, unless it appears from the context that a Chinese year is intended.

"Person", and words applied to any person or individual, shall apply to and include, subject only to the provisions of section 35, bodies corporate, joint tenauts and tenants in common. Statutory Declaration means a declaration made by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, or of the Statutory Declaration Ordinance, 1893.

• Enactment

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means any provision made by com- petent authority, having the force of law, and any part of such provision, and includes rules and regulations made in virtue of powers con- ferred by any Ordinance or statute; and Provided" or

Prescribed ", when used in re- ference to any chactment, means provided or prescribed by such enactment.

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Any Ordinance OP Any enactment means and includes any Ordinance or any enactment, as the case may be, which is in force in the Colony at the time when the enactment in which the expression occurs is enforced or applied.

· Offence" means any crime, misdemeanor, contra- vention, or other breach of the law for which a penalty is provided.

“Committed for trial" means when used in relation to any person, committed to prison with the view to his being tried before a Judge and Jury, or otherwise as the law directs; and includes a person who is admitted to bail upon recogniz- auces to appear and take his frial before a Judge and Jury, or otherwise.

Statute' Or "Act means an Act of the Imperial

Parliament.

«Treaty menus aud includes a treaty, convention

or agreement made with a foreign State, toge- ther with protocols or declarations attached thereto, or independent thereof but referring thereto.

Will" means and includes will, testament, codicil, and all other testamentary papers what-

soever.

"Medical Practitioner ", or any words importing a person recognized at law as a practitioner in medicine or surgery or as any kind of mem- ber of the medical profession, means a medical practitioner duly registered under Ordinance No. 1 of 1884.

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"Solicitor means a legal practitioner admitted to practice as a solicitor before the Supreme Court under Ordinance No, 1 of 1871.

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