Colonial definitions.
Geographical definitions,
Legislative Commeil" and "Legislature”, Incan the Council of Government of Hongkong created by the instructions passed under the Royal Sign Mannal and Signet on the 7th July, 1896, and when used with reference to a British possession other than Hongkong, the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament, or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession. "Chinese Authorities" means any officer of the Chinese Government acting on behalf of such Government and recoguised as such by the Government of the Colony.
“Public Office" and "Public Department
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and include every officer or department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether under the immediate control of the Governor or not,
§ 15 (9) with new matter.
§ 5 (6).
$ 5 (8).
Emigration Officer" means and includes every
person lawfully acting as emigration officer, $5 (10), emigration agent, or proicetor of emigrants in the Colony.
"The Treasury" and "Treasurer" mean the Colonial New. Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respect-
ively.
Justice of the Pence " means a person appointed
by the Governor to aut as Justice of the. Peace for the Colony.
"Colony
B.-Colonial Definition
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means the Colony of Hongkong, and in- chides the New Territ res unless it appear $ 5 (3). from express provision or by necessary impli- cation that the New Territories is not intended.
The New Territories' mean the additional ter- Ord. No. 34 ritories acquired by this Colony under the of 1910, Couvention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of China for the enlargement of the limits of this Colony in- cluding the City of Kowloon.
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New Kowloon' means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated and shewn upon a plan marked New Kowloon" signed by the Director of Public Works and countersigned by the Governor and deposited in the Land Office of this Colony.
"City of Victoria", or "Victoria", means the area of Hongkong within the boundaries indicated by Ordinance No. 20 of 1903. "Harbour" means the harbour of Victoria. "Waters of the Colony or Colonial Waters"
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C.-Geographical Definitions.
United Kingdom" means the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.
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§ 15 (1).
British Islands" means the United Kinglon, the § 15 (2).
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
§ 15 (D).
"British Possession means any part of His Ma- jesty's Dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom; and where parts of such Dominions are under both a central and a local Legisla- ture, all parts under the central Legislature shall, for the purpose of this definition, be deemed to be one British possession. "British Colony
or "Colony cans, where the
§ 15 (3). Colony of Hongkong is not intended, any part of His Majesty's Dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom and of British India; nud where parts of such Dominions are under both a central and a local Legislature, all parts under the central Legislature shail, for the purposes of this definition, be deen ed to be one Colony,
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