INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
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time.
28.--(1) Whenever any expression of time occurs in any enactment or in any legal document, the time referred to shall, unless the contrary intention appear, be held to be standard time.
The expression "standard time" means standard time as used in the Colony, that is to say, the mean time of the 120th meridian East of Greenwich, which is exactly 8 hours in advance of Greenwich mean time.
(2) The expression "a.m." indicates the period between midnight and noon on the day succeeding; and the expression "p.m." indicates the period between noon and the midnight following; and where in any enactment two such expressions occur conjunctively in relation to any specified hours, or in conjunction with the words "sunset or sunrise", they shall be construed to relate to consecutive periods of time.
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29. Where any Ordinance authorises or requires any document to be served by post, whether the expression "serve" or "give" or "send", or any other expression is used, then, unless the contrary intention appear, the service shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying, and posting a letter containing the document, and, unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
30. In any enactment expressions referring to writing or printing shall include, unless the contrary intention appear, writing, printing, lithography, photography, type-writing, and every other mode of representing words or figures in a visible form; but in the case of a book "printing" shall not include writing or type-writing.
Nothing in this section shall be taken to apply to signatures.
"oath",
31. In all Ordinances, unless the contrary intention appear, the words "oath" and "affidavit" include, in the cases of persons allowed or required by law to declare or to solemnly affirm instead of swearing, "declaration" and "solemn affirmation"; and
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"swear", in the like cases, includes "declare" and "solemnly affirm".
32. Where in any enactment Chinese words or terms are used, or where English words are used, followed, in brackets or otherwise, by Chinese explanations, ...
Use of Chinese expressions in Ordinances.
* As amended by No. 43 of 1912.