THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 1912.
one Ordinance; AND WHEREAS it is expedient more completely than at present to incorporate many
of the amending Ordinances now in force into the body of their respective principal Or- dinances; AND WHEREAS it is convenient that the repeals, amendments and incorporations aforesaid should be combined into one Ordinance for the General Revision of the Law:
AND WHEREAS the progress of the revision of the Ordinances has shewn the necessity for many further amendments in addition to those intro- duced by Ordinance No. 49 of 1911, and it is expedient to repeal the said Ordinance and to replace it by a new Ordinance :
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 General Short title. Revision Ordinance, 1912.
2. Ordinance No. 49 of 1911 is repealed.
Repeal.
3. In this Ordinance, expressions similar in Interpreta-
form to the following-
"No. 1 of 1844"
indicate an Ordinance of the year re-
ferred to therein together with its serial number;
and the letters and words S.
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SS.
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"sub-s.", "sub-ss.", indicate the words " sec-
tion",
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" sections
""
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sub-section
sections", respectively;
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" and sub-
and the marginal notes indicate the principal Ordinance affected by the sections to which they relate.
tion of
terms.
amendments,
4. In all editions of the Laws of Hongkong Provision for the provisions of the Ordinances which are here printing by repealed shall be omitted, and the provisions ete. which are hereby amended shall be printed as so amended, and the said Ordinances shall be con- strued and enforced accordingly.
ment of
5. This Ordinance shall come into force by Commence- Proclamation of the Governor, which shall not Ordinance. be issued until after the Legislative Council has authorised the use of the New Revised Edition
of the Laws of Hongkong now in course of pre- paration.
6. The following amendments are made in No. 1 of 1844. No. 36 of 1902, amending No. 1 of 1844 (Land
Registration):
ss. 2 and 5 are repealed ;
in s. 3, for "the_schedule hereto" there
shall be read the 2nd schedule"; ss. 3 and 4 shall be read as one section, which shall stand in lieu of s. 26 of No. 1 of 1844, which section is repealed;
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