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No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
Application
of Ordin
ances.
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[cf. No. 1 of 1883, s. 40,
No. 15 of 1935, s. 99, and No. 18 of 1935,
s. 167 (1).] Application of provisions
of this Ordinance.
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Commence- ment of Ordinances.
Definition of
'commence-
ment".
52 & 53 Vict.
c. 63,
8. 36 (1).
Time of
commence- ment.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 36 (2).
Exercise of statutory
powers
between passing and
commence- ment of Ordinance. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 37.
PART I.
Of Ordinances generally.
3. All Ordinances now in force and all future Ordinances shall extend to the New Territories unless it otherwise appears from express provision or by necessary implication.
4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears or unless otherwise expressly provided, apply (1) to this Ordinance and to all future Ordinances;
(2) to Ordinances now in force; and
(3) generally, to all enactments.
5. Every Ordinance shall, unless otherwise provided therein, come into operation on the day of its publication in the Gazette.
[s. 6, rep. No. 43 of 1912.]
7. The word
commencement ", when used with reference to any enactment, shall mean the day on which the enactment comes into operation.
8. Where any enactment, or any proclamation, notice, order, warrant, scheme or letters patent, made, granted, or issued, under a power conferred by any enactment, or by any competent authority, is expressed to come into operation on a particular day, the same shall be construed as coming into operation on the expiration of the previous day.
9. Where an Ordinance confers power to make any appoint- ment, to make, grant or issue any instrument, that is to say, any Order in Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent, rules, regulations or by-laws, to give notices, to prescribe forms, or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Ordinance, that power may, unless the contrary intention appears, be exercised at any time after the passing of the Ordinance, subject to this restriction, that any instrument made under the power shall not,
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
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unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance or the contrary is necessary for bringing the Ordinance into operation, come into operation until the Ordinance comes into operation.
10.—(1) In all Ordinances there shall be a short title, and Citation of in all references to Ordinances in any enactment or in any legal document it shall be sufficient, but not essential, to mention the short title thereto, together with the number of the section referred
to.
Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 35.
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(2) Where however the short title is not used, it shall be lawful to indicate any Ordinance referred to as aforesaid by the serial number of the year in which it was passed, together with such year, and the number of the section referred to, as the same appear in the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition), prepared under authority of the Ordinances and Regulations Ordinance of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, 1936.
No. 51 of 1936.
(3) Where the reference to any Ordinance is to any line in any section thereof, it shall be held to refer, in the case of Ordinances included in the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition), prepared under authority of the Ordinances and Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, 1936, to Ordinance the line of such section as printed therein; and in the case of No. 51 of Ordinances passed after the year 1937 to the line of such section
1936.
as printed in the copy deposited in the Registry of the Supreme Court.
PART II.
Of repeals.
11.-(1) Where any Ordinance repeals wholly or in part any Effect of former enactment and substitutes other provisions therefor, the repeal on repealed enactment shall remain in force until the substituted proclama-
existing provisions come into operation.
tions and regulations.
c. 63,
(2) Where any Ordinance, or any part of an Ordinance, is 52 & 53 Vict. repealed, all proclamations, orders, notices, rules, regulations s. 11 (2). and forms issued, made or prescribed in virtue thereof shall remain in force, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the repealing Ordinance and unless the contrary intention appears, until they have been repealed or replaced by
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
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