INTERPRETATION,
No. 31 of 1911.
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PART I.
Of Ordinances generally.
3. All Ordinances now in force and all future Ordinances shall extend to the New Territories unless it otherwise appears from express provision or by necessary implication.
4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears or unless otherwise expressly provided, apply
(1) to this Ordinance and to all future Ordinances;
(2) to Ordinances now in force; and
(3) generally, to all enactments.
[cf. No. 1 of 1883, s. 40, No. 15 of 1935, s. 99, and No. 18 of 1935, s. 167 (1).]
5. Every Ordinance shall, unless otherwise provided therein, come into operation on the day of its publication in the Gazette.
[s. 6, rep. No. 43 of 1912.]
7. The word "commencement", when used with reference to any enactment, shall mean the day on which the enactment comes into operation.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 36 (1).
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).
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,
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 37.