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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for effecting the final revision and amendment of the Ordinances of the Colony from 1844 to 1912 inclusive before incorpor- ating them in the New Revised Edition of the Laws of the Colony.
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 Final Revision Short title. Ordinance, 1912.
2. This Ordinance shall come into force at the same Commence- time as the issue of the Proclamation referred to in section ment. 8 (2) of Ordinance No. 19 of 1911.
nances of 1912 drafted
3. This Ordinance and Ordinances Nos, 1, 2, 8, 12, 13, References 16, 17, 21, 22 and 23 of 1912 shall be deemed to have to Ordi- been drafted by the Editor in connection with the prepara- tion of the New Revised Edition within the meaning of section 7 (1) of Ordinance No. 19 of 1911 as amended by Ordinance No. 61 of 1911.
by Editor in Ordinance
No. 19 of 1911.
4. The effect of this Ordinance and of Ordinances Nos. Revision 50, 51, 62 and 63 of 1911 and Ordinances Nos. 1, 2, 8, Ordinances 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 23 of 1912 shall be incorpor- to be incor- ated with the enactments they amend or revisc and there- porated
generally after this and the said Ordinances shall be deemed to be and not exhausted and like the ordinary Amending Ordinances re- printed in ferred to in section 4, (i) of Ordinance No. 19 of 1911 New Revised shall not be printed as Ordinances appearing in the New Revised Edition.
Edition.
5. The amendments indicated in the Schedule are hereby Amendments anthorised.
indicated in schedule authorised,
Schedule.
In Ordinance No. 1 of 1851 :--
(1) in the preamble the words "the Emperor of "shall
be deleted.
(2) in the preamble the word "persons" shall be sub-
stituted for “subjects".
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(3) in section 1 the word Persons shall be sub-
stituted for "Subjects".
(4) in section 2 the word " Chinese" shall be inserted
after the word "between”.
(5) in section 2 the words “the Emperor of " shall be
deleted.
In Ordinance No. 1 of 1856 :-
in section 2 the words
deleted.
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In Ordinance No. 4 of 1965 :--
the Empire of" shall be
(1) in section 29 the words “affirmation, declaration"
shall be deleted wherever they oceur.
(2) in section 32 the words "affirmation, declaration "
shall be deleted in sub-sections (1) and (3). (3) in section 39 the words "affirmation, declaration"
shall be deleted.
(4) in section 46 the words "affirmation, or declara-
tion"
shall be deleted.
(5) section 30 (3) shall be read thus :--
“(3) forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, any copy or cer- tificate of any record having thereon any false or forged name, handwriting, or signature, knowing the same to be false or forged; or "
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