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No. 30 of 1911.
PENALTIES AMENDMENT.
Alternative and cumulative penalties, how distinguished. [c. No. 31 of 1911, s. 33.]
Ordinance to apply to sentences against any enactment now in force, or any future enactment, relating to revenue, customs or quarantine, or relating to any of His Majesty's regular or auxiliary forces, or which carries into effect any treaty by which a minimum penalty is stipulated for the offence in question.
5. Whenever in any enactment now in force, or in any future enactment, several penalties are provided for one offence-
(1) the use of the word "or" in relation to such penalties shall signify that they are to be inflicted alternatively;
(2) the use of the word "and" shall signify that the penalties may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively; and
(3) the use of the words "together with" or "in addition to", or other expressions which convey the same meaning, shall signify that the penalties are to be inflicted cumulatively.
6. This Ordinance shall apply to penalties imposed upon summary conviction by a magistrate, or by two magistrates, or by a marine magistrate.
[Originally No. 31 of 1911.
No. 1 of 1927.
No. 23 of 1930.
No. 7 of 1935.
No. 41 of 1935.
No. 26 of 1937.
Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]
Short title.
Application of the Ordinance.
No. 31 of 1911.
An Ordinance to amend and codify the law as to the interpretation of terms and as to common forms used in Ordinances.
[28th August, 1913.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911.
2. This Ordinance shall apply to the Colony of Hong Kong and its dependencies, including the New Territories, unless it is otherwise expressed.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.