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Imposition
(2) Nothing in this section shall affect any provision in any enactment whereby any portion of any fine or forfeit or of the proceeds of any forfeit is expressed to be recoverable by any person or may be granted by any authority to any person.
37. The imposition of a penalty or fine by any enactment of penalty shall not relieve any person from liability to answer for damages
not to bar
civil action. to a person injured.
Reduction,
variation, remission, and appli- cation of fees and charges.
Hamission
38. Any fee or charge by or under any enactment made payable to the Crown or the Government or to any public body or public officer, not being a fee or charge which a judge has power to regulate by rule or order of court-
(a) may be reduced or varied by order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette: Provided that any variation thereof shall not exceed the original figure;
(b) may be remitted or refunded in whole or in part in any particular case and on any special ground by the Governor in Council;
(c) subject as aforesaid shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.
39. It shall be lawful for the Governor to remit, in whole or of penalties. in part, any sum of money which, under any enactment now in force or hereafter to be passed, may be imposed as a penalty or forfeiture on a convicted offender, although such money may be in whole or in part payable to some party other than the Crown, and to order the discharge of any person who may be imprisoned for non-payment of any sum of money so imposed.
Application of Act to the Colany
be اللونية
read with
such modi-
PART VII.
IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS.
40. Whenever any Act is extended or applied to Hong Kong and whenever any Order in Council is made which applies to territories other than the Colony as well as to the Colony the same shall be read with such modifications as to names, localities, fications as courts, officers, persons, moneys, penalties and otherwise as may be necessary to make it applicable to the circumstances and in particular any reference to a Probate Court, Bankruptcy Court or Admiralty Court or similar expression shall be construed as a reference to the Supreme Court exercising the appropriate jurisdiction.
ure negEx BATY to
make it upplicable to the Colony.
41. A reference in any enactment to any imperial enactment Construc- or to any provision, part or division thereof shall be construed as
tion of reference
a reference to the same as the same may be amended from time ta imperial to time and as a reference to any enactment, provision, part or enactment
or part division substituted therefor.
thereof,
42. When any imperial statutc is referred to it shall be Citation sufficient for all purposes to cite such imperial enactment by the
of imperial statutes. short title cited therein or by the short title given thereto by the Short Titles Act, 1896.
30 & 60 Vict, c.14.
PART VII.
REPEAL.
43. The following enactments are hereby repealed-
(a) The Penalties (Remission) Ordinance, 1860; (b) The Crown Fees Ordinance, 1870;
(c) The Misdemeanors Punishment Ordinance, 1898; (d) The Penalties Amendment Ordinance, 191
(e) The Interpretation Ordinance, 1911;
(A) The Public Officers (Changes of Style) Ordinance,
1937.
PART IX.
COMMENCEMENT,
Kepoul of Ordinances No. 3 of 1800, 5 of 1870, 1 of
1808, 30 of
1911, 31 of
1911, and
25 of 1937.
44. This Ordinance shall come into force on such day as the Commonen- Governor shall notify by proclamation in the Gazette.
mgat.
FIRST SCHEDULE. Boundaries of the City of Victoria.
On the north-The Harbour;
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On the west A line running north and south drawn through the north-west angle of Inland Lot No. 1299 and extending southwards a distance of 850 feet from the aforesaid angle;
On the south-A line running east from the southern extremity of the western boundary until it meets a contour of the hill-side 700 feet above principal datum, that is to say, a level 17.833 feet below the bench-mark known as "Rifleman's Bolt'', or the highest point of a copper bolt set horizontally in the wall of a storehouse