ས་—
Interpreta-
tion of **British Colony", "India" and
"years of age" or words of a like meaning, when used in reference to the age of any person, means years according to English reckoning.
(2) In any such enactment or Order in Council as is mentioned in section 2 coming into force after the commencement of this Ordinance or contained in the revised edition of Ordinances or the revised edition of subsidiary legislation prepared under the "Pakistan" authority of the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance, 1948, in future
and in any instrument issued thereunder- enactmente and revised edition.
Ordinance No. 20 of IB48.
Deinition to apply to gram- matical
a Dominion;
"British Colony" or "Colony" shall not include
"India" and "Pakistan" shall mean respectively the Republic of India and the Dominion of Pakistan, including any state from time to time incorporated in such Republic or Dominion respectively.
(3) Whenever a definition has been given by this or any other enactment to words or expressions the grammatical variations and cognate expressions of such definition shall also variations and cognate
apply to such enactment and such definition and its grammatical expressions. variations and cognate expressions shall also apply to any enactment or instrument made or issued under or by virtue thereof.
Reference
ment property.
(4) Whenever any reference is made to property and to Govern. the expressions used in relation thereto imply that such property is owned by or belongs to the Government or convey a similar meaning such reference shall be deemed to refer to such of the property of the Crown of the description mentioned as has by or with the consent of His Majesty express or implied been appropriated to the use of the Government.
Provisions
for gender
and number. [/. 62 & 53 Vict, .69,
6.1.]
females.
(5) (a) Words importing the masculine gender include
vice versa.
Meaning of service by
post.
(b) Words in the singular include the plural and
enactment
authorizes
or
(6) Where
any
requires any document to be served by post, whether the expression Tel. 62 & 53 "serve" or "give" or "send" or any other expression is used Vict. c.63,
the service shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the document, and unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
6.28.]
terms,
(7) Chinese words or terms whether in Chinese charac- Provision ters or not and whether in apposition or not to English words for Chinese shall be deemed to form part of any enactment in which they appear and shall be construed according to Chinese language and custom.
(8) (a) Whenever any expression of time occurs in Reference any enactment or instrument, the time referred to shall be held to time. to be standard time.
(b) The expression "a.m." indicates the period a.m. and between midnight and noon on the day succeeding; and the P expression "p.m." indicates the period between noon and the midnight following and where two such expressions occur con- junctively in relation to any specified hours, or in conjunction with the words "sunset" or "sunrise", they shall be construed as relating to consecutive periods of time.
(9) Reference to the Sovereign or to the Crown shall Reference be construed as reference to the Sovereign for the time being.
to the Sovereign. [ef. 52 & 53 Viet. 2.69. 1.30.1
In an
(10) A public officer or department may be referred to Reference by the term designating such office or department as appearing officer and in any enactment or in any provision made by Legislative Council change of for the payment of the emoluments of such office or the expenses title, of such department or by any style authorized by the Governor under the proviso hereinafter contained and any reference to a public officer includes the person for the time being executing the duties of such office and a person appointed to perform any portion of such duties: Provided that if the Governor considers it expedient that there should be a change in the style of any public office or department he may by notice in the Gazette declare that such change of style shall take effect from a date specified in such notice, and provided further that whenever a change in the style of an office or department occurs whether by virtue of such notice or in any other lawful manner any reference to such former style shall be read and construed as a reference to that office or department, as the case may be, by such new style.
(11) Any word or expression denoting distance shall Expressions denote distance measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane, distance. denoting
Jef. 52 & 63 Vict. c.69, *.34.1