1946-HKRS28-8-13_Part01 — Page 7

HONG KONG

No. 1 of 1946,

I assent.

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Governor.

1st May, 1946.

An Ordinance to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acta done and payments made during the war period and to validate certain pro- clamations, rules, regulations, orders and other legislative acts issued, made and passed, and sentences, judgments and orders of certain courts and officers given and made during the war period.

[lat May, 1946.]

Be 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 Indemnity and Validating Ordinance. 1940, Short Die.

2.

In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires

"act" includes payment or collection of money and "act" used with reference to an offence, a civil wrong or a breach of contract, includes a series of acts, and words which refer to acts done extend also to omissions;

"appellate authority" includes a confirming or reviewing authority and any person or body having authority to hear appeals from or to review the judgment of any court or tribunal;

"British Military Administration" means the Administration established by a Proclamation signed on H.M.S, Indomitable by Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt and dated the 1st of September, 1945;

"Hong Kong money or fund" includes any money or fund---

(a) derived, wholly or in part, from the revenues or moneys of the Colony or of the Government thereof or held for any of the purposes of such Government including moneys in general cash account or surplus funds account, or in any reserve, investment, revenue replacement, currency or currency surplus fund; or in any sinking fund; or in any pensions or públic officers' guarantee fund; or Government scholarship, stúdentship. or educa- tional fund;

(b) belonging to or standing to the credit of any Official Truster, Official Ad- ministrator, Official Receiver or Custodian of Enemy Property account, or to the account of any public officer or deposited as security for the proper discharge of duty by any such officer, or derived from local loans of from the sale of War Savings Certificates in the Colony;

(c) belonging to or held on behalf of the Police or of any Court or of the

Railway or of any public undertaking in the Colony

"judgment" includes findingt

"legal proceeding" includes action, suft, prosecution, petition of right. applica- tion, cause and matter, and every proceeding of whatever nature in any court, whether civil or criminal;

Jutgers.