INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
1951
Commerce-
8. Where any enactment, or any proclamation, notice, order, warrant, scheme, or letters patent, made, granted, or issued, under a power conferred by any enactment, or by any competent authority, is expressed to come into operation on a particular day, the same shall be construed as coming into operation on the expiration of the previous day.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 36 (2).
powers
9. Where an Ordinance confers power to make any appointment, to make, grant, or issue any instrument, that is to say, any Order in Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent, rules, regulations, or by-laws, to give notices, to prescribe forms, or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Ordinance, that power may, unless the contrary intention appears, be exercised at any time after the passing of the Ordinance, subject to this restriction, that any instrument made under the power shall not, unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance, or the contrary is necessary for bringing the Ordinance into operation, come into operation until the Ordinance comes into operation.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 37.
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Ordinances.
10. (1) In all Ordinances there shall be a short title, and in all references to Ordinances in any enactment or in any legal document it shall be sufficient, but not essential, to mention the short title thereto, together with the number of the section referred to.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 35.
(2) Where, however, the short title is not used, it shall be lawful to indicate any Ordinance referred to as aforesaid by the serial number of the year in which it was passed, together with such year, and the number of the section referred to, as the same appear in the edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, prepared under authority of the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, Ordinance, 1923.
No. 18 of 1923.
(5) Where the reference to any Ordinance is to any "line" in any section thereof, it shall be held to refer, in the case of Ordinances included in the edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, prepared under authority of the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, Ordinance, 1923, to the line of such section as printed therein; and in the case of Ordinances passed after the year 1923, to the line of such section as printed in the copy deposited in the Registry of the Supreme Court.
* As amended by No. 3 of 1917 and No. 34 of 1923.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
No. 18 of 1923.