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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 29, 1911.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 12 of 1900 from date of pro- clamation of New Revised Edition.
Validity and operation of New Revised Edition,
(5.) In so far as there are variauces between the Revised Edition and the aforesaid originals in the case of Ordinances passed up to the end of the year 1901 such originals shall be deemed to have been amended by and such variations shall be deemed to have been authorised by the Statute Laws (Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1900.
(6.) Such originals and the Ordinances contained in the Revised Edition shall be proved by certi- fied copies thereof, or, by order of a judge, by the production thereof by the Registrar. Subject however to objection being taken any such original or any Ordinance contained in the Revised Edition may be proved by the production of a copy of the Gazette or of a copy of any collection of Ordinances, pur- porting to be printed by the Government Printers, containing a copy of such original or by the production of a volume of the Revised Edition, purporting to be impressed on the title page thereof with the seal of the Colony, containing such Ordinance.
(7.) Any person shall be entitled to inspect any such originals or the copy of the Revised Edition preserved by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as aforesaid 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 there- from for certification by the Registrar, on payment of twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-five words for each copy or extract. 10.--(1.) The Statute Laws (Revised Edition) Ordin-
ance, 1900, is repealed.
(2.) This section shall come into force at the same time as the proclamation referred to in section 8.
11. From and ag
the date of such proclamation the New Revised Edition shall be deemed to be, and shall be, without any question, in all Courts of Justice and for all other purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper Statute Book of the Colony up to the date of the latest of the Ordinances contained therein. From and after the said dare in so far as there may be variances between the Ordin- ances contained in the New Revised Edi- tion and the Ordinances contained in the Revised Edition or between the New Revised Edition and the originals preserved by the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ordin- auces passed during the period between the commencement of the year 1902 and the end of the year of 1911 the Ordinances contained in the Revised Edition and the Ordinances passed during the said period shall be decmed to have been amended by and such variations shall be deemed to have been authorised by this Ordinance:
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any Ordinance which may be passed, before the issue of such pro- clamation, for the repeal, alteration or amend- ment of any earlier Ordinance after such Ordinance has been printed in the Revised Edition."
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of December, 1911.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 29th
day of December, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Colonial Secretary.