THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 4, 1936.
so that the object of the later Ordinance has been effected, the remainder of the said later Ordinance shall be treated as exhausted and omitted from the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition).
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), the following omissions shall be held to be included therein :-
(a) Ordinances or parts of Ordinances which have expired or have become spent or have lost their effect or are no longer required;
(b) repealing sections, and tables and lists of repealed enactments, in schedules or otherwise;
(c) preambles, or parts of preambles, to Ordinances which in the opinion of the editor no longer serve any useful purpose; and
(d) sections prescribing the date when, or the method by which, any Ordinance, or any part of any Ordinance, is to come into force, where the omission in the opinion of the editor can conveniently be made: Provided that in all cases a note shall be inserted at the head of all Ordinances of the date of their commencement.
revision of
7.—(1) The Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Extent of shall include all the Ordinances in force on the 1st day of Ordinances. January, 1937, and also any unrepealed Ordinance passed before but not brought into force on or before that date, and shall be comprised in two or more volumes, as may be
necessary.
(2) The editor shall further prepare and issue as part of his undertaking-
(a) a chronological table of all the Ordinances of the Colony, including those which have been repealed, or which were not included in the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923 : Provided that he may for such purpose adopt the chronological table prepared for the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, by Arthur Dyer Ball, Esquire;
(b) a full and complete index to the subject-matter of all Ordinances contained in the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition); and
(c) such indexes and tables of reference to the aforesaid or other matters as he may cons der necessary for perfecting the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition),
all of which things shall be included in one or more supple- mentary volumes separate and distinct from those containing the Ordinances, and shall, together with the volumes containing. the Ordinances, form one edition entitled "The Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition)".
tions.
8. The editor shall further prepare and issue in two or Collection more volumes a collection of the regulations in force in the of regula- Colony on the 1st day of January, 1937, to be known as the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition), omitting-
(i) regulations of particular and not of general applica- tion; and
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