Appoint
ment of commissioner.
Power of Commisioner lo amit,
Other powers
of commis- sioner.
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(b) any Proclamation of the British Military Administration and
any subsidiary legislation made under or by virtue thereof;
"revised edition" means the revised edition of the laws of Hong Kong
prepared under the authority of section 3;
**subsidiary legislation" means any proclamation, rule, regulation, order. resolution, notice, rule of court, by-law or other instrument made under or by virtue of any Ordinance or Proclamation, as the case may be, and having legislative effcct.
3. The Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint a com- missioner who shall prepare a revised edition of the laws of Hong Kong.
4. (1) In the preparation of the revised edition, the commissioner shall have power to omit-
(a) all Ordinances, or parts of Ordinances, which have been expressly repealed or which have expired or have become spent or have had their effect:
(b) all repealing provisions contained in Ordinances and all tables and lists of repealed Ordinances, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise;
(c) all preambles to Ordinances, where such omission can, in the
opinion of the commissioner, conveniently be made;
(d) all provisions prescribing the date when an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance is to come into operation, where such omission can, in the opinion of the commissioner, conveniently be made; (e) all amending Ordinances or parts thereof, where the amend- ments effected thereby have been embodied by the commis- sioner in the Ordinance to which they relate; and
(f) all enacting clauses.
(2) Any Ordinance or part thereof omitted from the revised edition. in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) may be proved by the production of any copy thereof by which the same could have been proved before the effective date.
5. The commissioner shall, in addition to the powers conferred by section 4. have power-
(a) to transfer to subsidiary legislation any part of an Ordinance which can more conveniently be included as subsidiary legislation made under that Ordinance or under any other Ordinances
(b) to arrange the grouping and sequence of Ordinances;
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(c) to make such formal alterations to any Ordinance as are necessary or expedient for the purpose of securing uniformity of expression;
(d) to consolidate into one Ordinance any two or more Ordinances or any number of Ordinances in pari materia, making such alterations as are thereby rendered necessary or expedient and affixing such date thereto as may seem most convenient;
(e) to divide any Ordinance into two or more Ordinances and to make such amendments, including the supplying of titles, or the alteration of existing titles, as are thereby rendered necessary;
(f) to incorporate in any Ordinance any amendment made to any schedule, form or other part by any authority under powers conferred by that Ordinance;
(g) to alter the order of sections in any Ordinance:
() to renumber the sections in any Ordinance in all cases where
it may be necessary or expedient so to do;
(0 to alter the form or arrangement of any section, by trans- ferring words, by combining it in whole or in part with another section or other sections or by dividing it into two or more subscotions;
()) to transfer any provision contained in an Ordinance from such Ordinance to any other Ordinance to which that provision more properly belongs, making such alterations as are thereby rendered necessary or expedient;
(k) to divide Ordinances, whether consolidated or not, into parts
or divisions;
(4) to add a long title or a short title to any Ordinance which may require it or to alter the long title or short title of any Ordinanco
(m) to supply or alter tables of contents, chronological tables and
notes:
Provided that such tables of contents, chronological tables and notes shall not form any part of the Ordinance in which they appear;
(n) to correct grammatical, typographical and similar errors in the existing copies of Ordinances, and for that purpose to make verbal additions, omissions, or alterations not affecting the meaning of any Ordinance;
(o) to correct cross references;