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Appointment of editor and title of edition.
Powers of the editor.
Ordinance
No. 10 of 1899.
Ordinance
No. 6 of 1900.
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REGULATIONS.
[A.D. 1926.
A.D. 1926.]
(4) The Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923” means the edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong prepared by Arthur Dyer Ball, Esquire, and referred to in the proclamation of the Governor, dated the 18th day of September, 1924, and made in virtue of Ordinance No. 18 of 1923.
3.—(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the operation of
(a) any preclamation by His Majesty; (b) any order of His Majesty in Council; (e) any proclamation by the Governor ; or (d) any resolution of the Legislative Council.
(2) Nothing contained in the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, shall be deemed to affect, or at any time to have affected, the validity of any regulation made after the 31st day of December, 1923.
4. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint some fit and proper person as editor, hereinafter called "the editor", to prepare an edition of the regulations in force in the Colony ou the 31st day of December, 1925.
(2) The said edition shall be called "The Regulations of Hongkong, 1844-1925 ".
5. In the preparation of the said edition, the cidtor shall have the following powers:-
(1) to omit from the said edition—
(a) any regulations in force which in his opinion
are obsolete, speut or of no effect;
(b) save by reference only, Schedules to Ordi. nances contained in the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, and any orders by a competent authority amending the same;
(e) any rules made under section 4 (8) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, relating to examinations for certificates of com- petency;
(d) any regulation made under the Post Office
Ordinance, 1900;
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(e) any order of the Governor under section 92 Ordinance
of the Public Health and Buildings Ordi- No. 1 of nance, 1903; (f) any regulation made under the Railways Ordinance
Ordinance, 1909;
No. 21 of 1909.
(g) any order of the Governor in Council under Ordinance
section 24 of the Rents Ordinance, 1922; No. 14 of
1922.
(h) any pension minute other than any regula- Ordinance
tion made under section 17 of the Police No. 11 of
1900. Force Ordinance, 1900;
(i) any order of any court in any legal pro-
ceeding, or any other order of the Governor, or of the Governor in Council, or of any other authority, which is of particular and not of general application:
Provided that the omission from the said edition of any such Schedules, rules, regulatious, orders or minutes as are referred to in sub-paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), (ƒ), (9), (h) and (i) above shall not affect the validity or operation thereof in any manner whatsoever;
(2) to include in the said edition an Appendix which may contain, in addition to regulations, such Government Notifications as the editor may think it desirable to print therein for purposes of convenient reference;
(8) to revise punctuation and to make grammatical and typographical amendments, where in the opinion of the editor such revision or amendments is or are necessary;
(4) to recast and add marginal notes and headings of divisions or sub-divisions of regulations, where in the opinion of the editor such recasting and addition is neces- sary; aud
(5) to do all such things relating to form and method as may be necessary for the perfecting of the said edition.
6. Subject to the provisions of the proviso to section Operation of
5 (1), from and after such date as may be appointed by the edition.
order of the Governor in Council,-
(1) the said edition shall for all purposes be deemed to contain all the regulations in force on the 31st day of December, 1925,
(2) any regulations which were in force in the Colony on the 31st day of December, 1925, and which
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