HOF KUNG
No. 20 of 1959,
I assent.
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Governor.
9th July, 1959.
An Ordinance further to amend the Interpretation Ordinance, Chapter 1.
[10th July, 1959.]
Bp 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 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended-
(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.
of section 3. (Cap. 1).
Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and by the following-
"Coming fata
operation
at 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. L