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Interpretation and General Clauses
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(3) Where any Ordinance requires or authorizes any alteration, transfer, or endorsement of or addition to any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit or exemption by a public officer, such fee shall be payable therefor as may be prescribed by law or as the Financial Secretary may prescribe by notice in the Gazette if no fee is prescribed by law.
(4) Where an extract of any document, book, record or instrument may be properly certified by a public officer as a true extract of such document, book, record or instrument, such fee shall be payable for the certifying of the extract by such officer as may be prescribed by law or as the Financial Secretary may prescribe by notice in the Gazette if no fee is prescribed by law.
(5) No fee shall be payable under this section for anything done by a public officer on behalf of the Urban Council or the Regional Council. (Added 65 of 1979 s. 10. Amended 39 of 1985 s. 60)
(Amended 69 of 1973 s. 4)
PART XIII
MISCELLANEOUS
98. Copies of Ordinances, etc. in Gazette
(1) A copy of an Ordinance shall, if published in the Gazette or purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, be deemed to be an authentic copy of that Ordinance as at the date of such publication or printing.
(2) A copy of any other instrument shall, if published in the Gazette or purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, on its production be admitted as prima facie evidence thereof in all courts and for all purposes whatsoever without any further proof.
(Replaced 2 of 1975 s. 5)
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98A. Rectification of errors
(1) The Attorney General may, by order published in the Gazette, rectify any clerical or printing error appearing in any Ordinance, not being an Ordinance contained in a booklet prepared under the authority of the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1965 (53 of 1965).
(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council without unreasonable delay, and, if a resolution is passed at the first sitting of the Legislative Council held not less than 27 days after the sitting at which the order is so laid that the order be annulled, it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder, or to the making of a new order. (Amended 2 of 1981 s. 3)
(Added 14 of 1971 s. 3)