DRAFT ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Court at
The
day of
PRESENT
114
1942.
Short title and inter- pretation.
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas circumstances have arisen in the Colony of
Hong Kong (hereinafter called "the Colony") which render it
expedient that provision should be made whereby powers
vested in the Governor of the Colony (hereinafter called
"the Governor") and other authorities under laws in
force in the Colony should, so long as the said
circumstances continue, be exercisable by one of His
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and that such
laws should be modified in other respects;
And whereas the said powers include those conferred
upon the Governor by the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act,
1939, as extended to the Colony;
Now, therefore, His Majesty in exercise of his powers
under the said Act and of all other powers enabling him
in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of his
Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as
follows:-
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Temporary
Provisions) Order in Council,1942.
(2) In this Order, the word "enactment" means
(a) any Ordinance,
(b) any provision, not made by virtue of an Act of
Parliament, contained in an Order of His Majesty in Council,
(c) any Regulations, Rules, Order, Proclamation or
other instrument made under an Ordinance or provision as aforesaid,
having the force of law in the Colony on the twenty-fifth
day of December, 1941.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply for the
interpretation of this Order as it applies for the
interpretation