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F.-General Definitions.
Gazette" means The Hongkong Government General
Gazette.
"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 therenuder, the meanings assigned to them unless inconsistent with the context.
Month means calendar month, unless it appears from the context that lunar mouth, or Chinese
moon is intended.
"Year" means a your according to the Georgian Calendar, unless it appears from the context that a Chinese year is intended.
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Person", and words applied to any person or individual, shall apply to and include, subject only to the provisions of section 85, hodies corporate, joint tements 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.
• Emctment” means any provision made by com- petent authority, having the force of how, 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- foreture to any enactment, means provided or prescribed by sneh enactment,
"Any Ordonnee or “Any enactment meats and includes any Ordinance or any enactment, as The ease
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 triat
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- nees to appear and take his trial before a Judge and Jury, or otherwise.
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or Act meaus an Aet of the Imperial Parliament.
Treaty
means and 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 a will, testament, codicil, and all other testamentary papers what-
Boever.
"Modical Practitioner ", or any words importing a person recognized at law as a practitioner in medicine or surgery or as any kind of mem- her of the medical profession, means a medical practitioner duly registered under Ordinance No. 1 of 1884.
4 Solicitor” means a legal practitioner admitted to practice as a solicitor before the Supreme Court uuder Ordinance No. 1 of 1871.
definitions.