THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 4, 1936. 1087!
HONG KONG.
No. 51 or 1936.
I assent.
L.S.
A. CALDECOTT,
Governor.
4th December, 1936.
An Ordinance to provide for a revised edition of the Ordin- ances, and for a revised edition of the Regulations, of the Colony.
[4th December, 1936.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ordinances and Short title. Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, 1936.-
2. In this Ordinance-
Interpreta- tion.
(a) "The Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923" means the edition of the Ordinances of Hong Kong prepared by Arthur Dyer Ball, Esquire, and authorised to be used by proclamation of the Governor, dated the 18th day of September, 1924, and made in virtue of the Ordinances of Ordinance Hongkong, 1844-1923, Ordinance, 1923.
(b) "The Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition)". means the edition of the Ordinances of Hong Kong to be prepared under the authority of this Ordinance.
(c) "The Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition)" means the edition of the Regulations of Hong Kong to be prepared under the authority of this Ordinance.
No. 18 of 1923.
3. The Governor may appoint a fit and proper person Appointment as editor to prepare the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937
edition) and the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition).
of editor.
4. In the preparation of the Ordinances of Hong Kong Powers of (1937 edition), the editor shall have the following powers:-
(1) to omit-
(a) Ordinances or parts of Ordinances which have been repealed;
(b) introductory words of enactment;
(c) headings or parts of headings of divisions or sub- divisions of Ordinances which in the opinion of the editor are not necessary to the proper interpretation of the Ordinances;
(d) regulations contained in Schedules to Ordinances which in the opinion of the editor can conveniently be included in the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition):
editor.
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