THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1887.
LS
W. H. MARSH.
No. 4 OF 1887.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled An Ordinance for promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing certain enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.
WE
[15th February, 1887.]
HEREAS with a view to the Revision of the Statute Law and in particular to the preparation of a Revised Edition of the Ordinances now in progress, it is expedient that certain enactments (mentioned in the Schedule to this Ordinance) which may be regarded as spent or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express and specific repeal or have by lapse of time and change of circumstances become unnecessary or as to which doubts have arisen whether the same have been expressly and specifically repealed, should be expressly and specifi- cally repealed; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Statute Law Revision Ordinance, 1887.
2. The enactments described in the Schedule to this Ordinance are hereby repealed subject to the exceptions and qualifications in the Schedule mentioned.
Provided that where any enactment not comprised in the Schedule has been repeated, confirmed, revived or perpe- tuated by any enactment hereby repealed, such repeal, con- firmation, revivor, or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal effected by this Ordinance;
And the repeal by this Ordinance of any enactment shall not affect any enactment in which such enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to;
And this Ordinance shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effects or consequences of anything already done or suffered or any existing status or capacity, or any right or title already acquired or accrued, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, claim or demand or any indemnity or the proof of any past act or thing;
Nor shall this Ordinance affect any principle or rule of Law or Equity or established jurisdiction, form or course of pleading, practice or procedure or existing usage, liberty, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office, appointment, payment, allowance, or emolument notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognized or derived by in or from any enactment hereby repealed;
Nor shall this Ordinance revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, duty, drawback, fee, payment, liberty, custom, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, pro- cedure or other matter or thing not now existing or in force.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 4th day of February, 1887.
ARATHOON SETII, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 15th day of February, 1887.
(Compare 38
39, V. c. 66,
Short Title. (38 & 39, V. c. 66, 8. 4.)
Enactments
in schedule repealed. (38 & 39, V. c. 66, s. 1.)
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
No. 5 of 1849. No. 5 of 1852. No. 1 of 1854. No. 3 of 1854..
The whole.
So much relates to 6 and 7 Vic. c. 34.
No. 1 of 1855..
No. 2 of 1855.
No. 1 of 1856.
No. 7 of 1856.
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.In part; namely:
.The whole.
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....In part; namely:
So much as relates to 8 and 9 Vic, c. 16; 15 and 16 Vic.
c. 48; 17 and 18 Vic, c. 25,
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