THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20тH NOVEMBER, 1897.
New Rules of Construction.
21. Every Ordinance, whether passed before or after Ordinances to the commencement of this Ordinance, shall be a public Or- be public dinance and shall be judicially noticed as such, unless the Ordinances. coutrary is expressly provided by the Ordinance.
22. Any Ordinance may be altered, amended, or repeal- Amendment ed in the same session of the Legislative Council.
or repeal of Ordinance in same session.
23.-(1.) Where an Ordinance, whether passed before or Mode of after the commencement of this Ordinance, contains a short citing past title, it shall be sufficient, in all Courts and for all other and future
Ordinances. purposes whatsoever, to cite such Ordinance by its short title.
(2) In any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this Ordinance a description or citation of a portion of an- other Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including the word, section, or other part mentioned or referred to as forming the beginning and as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or. citation.
24.-(1.) The preamble of an Ordinance, whether passed Construction before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, may of preamble, be referred to for assistance in explaining the scope and etc., in past object of the Ordinance.
(2.) Every schedule or table to an Ordinance, or part of an Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commen- cement of this Ordinance, shall, together with any notes thereto, be construed and have effect as part of the Ordinance.
and future Ordinances.
25. Where an Ordinance, whether passed before or after Division of the commencement of this Ordinance, is divided into parts, Ordinance chapters, titles, or other divisious, the fact and particulars of into parts, etc. such division shall, with or without express mention thereof
in such Ordinance, be taken notice of in all Courts aud for
all other purposes whatsoever.
26. Where a suspending clause is embodied in an Or- Form of dinance, such clause shall be in the following form, or to suspending the like effect :→
"This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor notifies, by Proclamation, that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same, and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.”
clause.
Ordinances.
27. In this Ordinance, and in every other Ordinance References to whether passed before or after the commencement of this the Crown in Ordinance, references to the Sovereign reigning at the time past and future of the passing of the Ordinance or to the Crown shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the Sovereign for the time being, and this Ordinance shall be binding on the Crown.
28. No Ordinance, whether passed before or after the General say- commencement of this Ordinance, shall in any manner what- ing afrights of soover affect the rights of the Crown, unless it is therein the Crown. expressly stated, or unless it appears by necessary implica- tion, that the Crown is bound thereby.
under two or more laws.
29. Where an act or omission constitutes an offence Provisions as under two or more Ordinances, or both under an Ordinance to offences and at common law, whether any such Ordinance was passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, the offender shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either or any of those Ordinances or at common law, but shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
30. In the measurement of any distance for the purposes Measurement of any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this of distances for Ordinance that distance shall, unless the contrary intention purposes of appears, be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane. Ordinances.
future
31. Whenever any expression of time occurs in any Meaning of Ordinance, deed, or other legal instrument, the time refer- expressions of red to shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be held time. to be local mean time.
32. Where an Ordinance, whether passed before or Construction after the commencement of this Ordinance, confers power of statutory to make, grant, or issue any instrument, that is to say, any rules, etc. Order-in-Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent,
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