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(i) to insert in their proper place in the Ordinances amended all provisions of amending Ordinances as indicated in such Ordinances, as if the said amended Ordinances had been ordered to be printed as amended in such amending Or- dinances; and further, where all the amend- ments made by such amending Ordinances are so inserted as aforesaid so that the object of such Ordinances has been effected, to treat the remainder of such Ordinances as exhausted, and to omit the same;
(i) to correct] make minor, grammatical and typographical [errors amendments, and to revise the punctuation where in the opinion of the Editor such revision is necessary;
(iv.) to substitute :
(a.) figures for words,
(b.) the serial number in references to Ordin-
ances instead of the short titles,
where in the opinion of the Editor such sub- stitutions are convenient ;
(r.) to adopt a convenient standard form for the definition sections in all Ordiwinces: and fiv.] (ei) to do all such things relating to form and method which may be necessary for the perfecting of the Revised Edition.
New Edition.
5. The numbering of the Ordinances contained in the Numbering Revised Edition, and of the sections of such Ordinances, of Ordin shall be preserved, unless by special anthority of the ances in Governor a new numbering of the sections of any Ordin- ance is considered advisable, [when] in which case new numbering shall be included in one of the Ordinances] the special Ordinance referred to in section 6 (4).
The numbering of the Ordinances passed since 1901 (and of the sections of such Ordinances shall in nowise be altered.
Editor for the purposes
6.—(1.) All omissions and amendments in the language Ordinances of the Ordinances comprised in the New Revised Edition, to be pre- [including] other than those referred to in the preceding pared by sections, shall be collected by the Editor and submitted to the Legislative Council in the form of one or more "Law of revision. Revisión" and "Law Amendment" Ordinances respect- ively [; provided that where such omissions or amend- ments are sufficiently material, although they do not affect the spirit and meaning of the provisions amended, the authority of the Governor shall be first obtained].
(2.) Where any omission or amendment is in the opi- nion of the Editor sufficiently important [and does not come within the preceding sub-section au] a special amending Ordinance shall be submitted to the Legislative Council, and if such Ordinance is passed the authority to make such omissions and amendments shall be the coming into force of such Ordinance.
(3.) The following omissions shall be held to be includ- ed in sub-section (1):—
(a.) parts of Ordinances which have expired or have
become spent or have lost their effect;
(b) repealing sections, and tables and lists of repealed enactments, in schedules or other-
wise;
(c) preambles, or parts of preambles, to Ordin- auces which in the opinion of the Editor no longer serve any useful purpose;
(d.) introductory words of enactment in any part of an Ordinance, which in the opinion of the Editor are no longer required ;
(e) sections prescribing the date when, or the method by which, any Ordinance, or any part of any Ordinance, is to come into force, where the omission in the opinion of the Editor can be conveniently made; provided that in all cases a note shall be inserted at the commence- ment of all Ordinances of the date of their commencement, and where any special method of bringing an Ordinance into operation has been prescribed, of the method and date by and at which the Ordinance has been brought into operation.