940
A BILL
Short title.
Amends sec- tion 4 of Ordinance
No. 19 of 1911.
Amends section 7 of Ordinance No. 19 of 1911.
Repeals sec- tions 9, 10, and 11 of Ordinance No. 19 of 1911 and substitutes
new see- tions.
Provision for the preserva- tion of Ordin-
ances as
passed and of Revised Edition for
purposes of record and
proof,
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Statute Laws (New
Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1911.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Statute Laws (New Revised Edition) Amendment Ordin: nce, 1911,
2. Sub-section (iii) of section 4 of the Statute Laws (New Revised Edition) Ordinance is hereby amended by the deletion of the word "minor".
.3. Section 7 of the Statute Laws (New Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1911, is hereby amended by the deletion of the
words :--
"shall be comprised in two Volumes, which shall include all the Ordinances in force down to the end of the year 1910, together with such of the Ordinances passed in the year 1911
and by the substitution therefor of the words : –
"shall comprise the Ordinances in force on the 31st day of December, 1911, as amended by any Ordinance passed in the year 1912, which shall have been drafted by the Editor in connection with the preparation of the said Edition. The said Eition shall be comprised in two Volumes which shall include the Ordinances of the years 1844 to 1910 inclu-ive together with such of the Ordinances of the year 1911".
4. Sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Statute Laws (New Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1911, are hereby repealed and there shall be substituted therefor the following see- tions :-
"9.-(1) The Statute Law Preservation Ordinance,
1886, is repealed.
(2.) A copy of this Ordinance and of all Ordinances passed after the commencement of this Ordin- ance, certified under the hand of the Governor and the seal of the Colony shall, as soon as conveniently may be after they have been passed by the Legistativ Commeil and assented to by the Governor, be transmitted by the Clerk of Councils to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, who shall carefully pre- serve them for record together with the col- lection of Ordinances of the Colony From the commencement thereof down to and inclusive of Ordinance No. 20 of 1886 and the scaled copies of all the Ordinances subse- quent to Ordinance No. 30 of 1886 already preserved in the Registry.
(3.) All such sealed copies and all the copies con- tained in the said collection shall be deemed to be the originals,
(4.) The Registrar shall also obtain and carefully
preserve a copy of the Revised Edition, (5.) In so far as there e variances between the Revised Edition and the aforesaid originals in the ease of Ordinances pussed up to the end of the year 1901 such originals shall be deemed to have been amen led by and such variations shall be deemed to have been authorised by the Statute Laws (Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1900.