HONG ENG
No. 20 OF 1959.
I assent.
Гови
Governor.
9th July, 1959.
An Ordinance further to amend the lnterpretation Ordinance, Chapter 1.
[10th July, 1959.]
En it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation (Amend. Short title. ment) Ordinance, 1959,
2. Subsection (1) of section 3 of the Interpretation Ordinance Amendment
of section 3. (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended--
(Cap. 1)
(a) by the deletion from the definition “Colonial Secretary" of the semicolon and the substitution therefor of the following- ". Principal Assistant Colonial Secretaries and Assistant Colonial Secretaries:";
(b) by the deletion of the definition "imprisonment".
3.
Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and by the following--
"Coming into
operatio
of enact- meals and
publishing
in Gazette.
8. (1) Where an enactment is not expressed to come into operation on a particular day it shall come into opera- tion immediately on the expiration of the day before the date of publication of the enactment in the Gazette.
replacement of section. 1.