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Interpretation and General Clauses
[1989 Ed.
(b) any person appointed as a health officer by the Governor; and (c) any person for the time being performing the duties of a health officer under any Ordinance;
"immovable property" means-
(a) land, whether covered by water or not;
(b) any estate, right, interest or easement in or over any land; and (c) things attached to land or permanently fastened to anything attached to land;
"imperial enactment" means----
(a) any Act;
(b) any Order in Council;
(c) any Letters Patent or Royal Instructions; and
(d) any rule, regulation, proclamation, order, notice, rule of court, by-law or other instrument made under or by virtue of any Act, Order in Council, Letters Patent or Royal Instructions;
"import" means to bring or cause to be brought into the Colony by air, land or water;
3/90s 6 "infant" and "minor" mean a person who has not attained the age of 24 years;
"instrument" includes any publication in the Gazette having legal effect;
"judge" means the Chief Justice, a Justice of Appeal, a judge of the High Court of Justice and a deputy judge of the High Court of Justice; (Replaced 92 of 1975 s. 58. Amended 49 of 1983 s. 7)
"justice" and "justice of the peace" mean a person appointed to be a justice of the peace for the Colony either by the Governor or by or under any Ordinance;
"Kowloon" means the area specified in Schedule 4;
"Lands Tribunal" means the Lands Tribunal established under section 3 of the Lands Tribunal Ordinance (Cap. 17); (Added 62 of 1974 s. 16)
“law” means any law for the time being in force in, having legislative effect in, extending to, or applicable in, the Colony;
"Legislative Council" means the Legislative Council of Hong Kong;
"magistrate" means-
(a) any person appointed to be a permanent, special or marine magistrate under the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227); and
(b) 2 justices of the peace sitting together, to whom section 7(2) of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227) applies;
"master", when used with reference to a vessel, means the person (except a pilot) having for the time being command or charge of the vessel;
"medical practitioner", "registered medical practitioner" and any words importing that a person is recognized by any Ordinance to be a medical practitioner in Hong Kong or a member of the medical profession in Hong Kong, mean a person duly registered as, or deemed to be registered as, a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161);