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notice, form or thing is necessary for bringing the Ordinance into operation, come into operation or have any effect until the Ordinance comes into operation.
33. Acts done under subsidiary legislation
deemed done under Ordinance
An act shall be deemed to be done under an Ordinance or by virtue of the powers conferred by an Ordinance or in pursuance or execution of the provisions of or under the authority of an Ordinance, if it is done under or by virtue of or in pursuance or execution of or under the authority of subsidiary legislation made under any power contained in that Ordinance.
34. Placing of subsidiary legislation
before Legislative Council
(1) All subsidiary legislation shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the next sitting thereof after the publication in the Gazette of that subsidiary legislation.
(2) Where subsidiary legislation has been laid on the table of the Legislative Council under subsection (1), the Legislative Council may, by resolution passed at a sitting of the Legislative Council held not later than 28 days after the sitting at which it was so laid, provide that such subsidiary legislation shall be amended in any manner whatsoever consistent with the power to make such subsidiary legislation, and if any such resolution is so passed the subsidiary legislation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be amended as from the date of publication in the Gazette of such resolution.
(3) If the period referred to in subsection (2) would but for this subsection expire-
(a) after the end of a session of the Legislative Council or a dissolution thereof; but
(b) on or before the day of the second sitting of the Legislative Council in the next following session thereof,
that period shall be deemed to extend to and expire on the day after that second sitting.
(4) Before the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (2) or that period as extended by virtue of subsection (3), the Legislative Council may by resolution in relation to any subsidiary legislation specified therein extend that period or that period as so extended by a further period not exceeding 21 days.
(5) Any resolution passed by the Legislative Council in accordance with this section shall be published in the Gazette not later than 14 days after the passing thereof or within such further period as the Governor may allow in any particular case.
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