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Amendment or repeal of Ordinance in same session.
Mode of citing past and future Ordinances.
Construction of preamble, etc., in past and future Ordinances.
Division of Ordinance
No. 8.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [AD
23. Any Ordinance may be altered, amended, or repealed in the same session of the Legislative Council.
24.-(1.) Where an Ordinance, whether passed before or after commencement of this Ordinance, contains a short title, it shall be sufficient, in all Courts and for all other 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 another 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.
25.-(1.) The preamble of an Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, may be referred to for assistance in explaining the scope and object of the Ordinance.
(2.) Every schedule or table to an Ordinance, or part of an Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, shall, together with any notes thereto, be construed and have effect as part of the Ordinance.
26. Where an Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, is divided into parts, chapters, titles, or other divisions, the fact and particulars of such division shall, without express mention thereof in such Ordinance, be taken notice of in all Courts and for all other purposes whatsoever.
Form of suspending clause.
References to past and future Ordinances.
27. Where a suspending clause is embodied in an Ordinance, such clause shall be in the following form, or to 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."
28. In this Ordinance and in every other Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, references to the Crown in the Sovereign reigning at the time 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.
General saving of rights
29. No Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, shall in any manner whatsoever affect the rights of the Crown.