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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 352.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 24th November, 1936 :-
Short title.
Construction
of Ordin-
ances, etc., where the terms
"Director of Medical and Sanitary Services",
"Deputy Director of
Medical and
Sanitary Services",
Officer" or
[No. 35-12.10.36.-1.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to give effect to the change in name and style of the offices heretofore known as those of Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
WHEREAS the Governor has been pleased, at the request of the Secretary of State in order to preserve uniformity in the nomenclature of scheduled posts of the Colonial Medical Service, to direct that the offices hitherto known and styled as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and as the Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall be hereafter known and styled respectively as Director of Medical Services and Deputy Director of Medical Services, and it is expedient to give effect to such direction :-
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 Director of Medical and Sanitary Services (Change of Name) Ordinance, 1936.
2. Whenever in any Ordinance, order of the Governor in Council, order of the Governor, appointment, rule, regulation, minute, by-law, deed, contract, official letter, or other document the term "Director of Medical and Sanitary Services" or "Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services', or the term "Principal Civil Medical Officer" or "Colonial Surgeon" occurs, and it is necessary to give effect thereto, such document shall be read and construed as if the term "Director of Medical Services" were substituted for
"Principal the term "Director of Medical and Sanitary Services" or CivilMedical "Principal Civil Medical Officer" or "Colonial Surgeon" and "Colonial as if the term "Deputy Director of Medical Services" were substituted for the term "Deputy Director of Medical and Sanitary Services".
Surgeon"
occur.
Change of
name of
office not to
be deemed
an abolition
of office or to affect
powers, duties or
respon. sibilities
attached
thereto.
3. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to involve an abolition of office or to affect the powers, duties or responsibilities attached to any office the title whereof has been changed.
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