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Judge.
Rules of court. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 14.
Any Ordinance.
Bank of
Eugland.
52 & 53 Vict.
c. 63,
a. 12 (18).
No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
tried as provided by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932; and the expression "summary conviction or "conviction before a magistrate", and any other expression having the like intent, means that the offence to which it relates was triable, and has been tried, and the offender convicted, as provided by the said Ordinance; and in both cases the procedure respecting the imposition of fines and forfeitures, imprisonment for default, and all other provisions respecting the jurisdiction of the magistrate, and the procedure of such trial, shall be held to be included: and where by any Ordinance an offence is made punishable by summary conviction, the magistrate or two magistrates, as the case may require, shall be deemed thereby to be invested with and jurisdiction to try any person accused of such offence; references in any enactment to two magistrates shall mean two magistrates sitting together and exercising jurisdiction as provided by section 87 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932.
(9) "Judge" means any judge of the Supreme Court; and where any civil jurisdiction is required to be exercised by a judge, such jurisdiction, if it is not otherwise expressed, shall be exercisable by a judge sitting in chambers.
(10) "Rules of court means, when used in relation to any court, rules made by the authority having for the time being power to make rules and orders regulating the practice and procedure of such court, together with the forms necessary thereto. The power of the said authority to make rules of court as above defined shall include a power to make rules of court, together with the forms necessary thereto, for the purpose of any future enactment directing or authorizing anything to be done by rules of court.
E.-General definitions.
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(1) Any Ordinance "
includes any or any enactment Ordinance or any enactment, as the case may be, which is in force in the Colony at the time when the enactment in which the expression occurs is enforced or applied.
(2) "Bank of England" means the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
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(3) Bank of Ireland
means the Governor and Company Bank of
[3. 39-E contd.]
of the Bank of Ireland.
Ireland.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,
3. 12 (19).
for trial.
(4) Committed for trial means, when used in relation Committed to any person, committed to prison with the view of his being 52 & 53 Viet. tried before a judge and jury, or otherwise as the law directs: c. 63, s. 27. and includes a person who is admitted to bail upon recogni- zances to appear and take his trial before a judge and jury, or otherwise.
(5) Definition
means the interpretation to be given to Definition. words or expressions used in the Ordinance or part of an Ordin- ance to which such interpretations are declared to be applicable: and the words or expressions are to have in such Ordinance or part of an Ordinance, and in any rules, regulations, orders or other documents made thereunder, the meanings assigned to them unless inconsistent with the context.
(6) Enactment "
means any provision made by competent Enactment. authority having the force of law, and any part of such pro- vision, and includes rules and regulations made in virtue of powers conferred by any Ordinance or statute.
(7)
"Gazette means the Hong Kong Government Gazette. Gazette.
In this In this "In this Part" or or
..
(8) In this Ordinance section
J
etc.
or any other similar expression means, when used at Ordinance, the commencement of an interpretation section, that the words or expressions which follow shall have, in the Ordinance or part or section or in any rules, regulations, orders or other documents made thereunder, the meanings assigned to them unless it is otherwise provided or unless any such meaning is repugnant to or inconsistent with the context, and the definitions of the said words and expressions shall apply mulatis mutandis to any grammatical variations of the terms defined and to any expres- sions cognate therewith.
practitioner.
(9) Medical practitioner ", or any words importing a Medical person recognized at law as a practitioner in medicine or surgery or as a member of any branch of the medical profession, means a medical practitioner duly registered or deemed to be a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935, unless a Chinese medical practitioner is expressly referred to.
Ordinance No. 41 of 1935.
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