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[e. Ordin- ance No. 39 of 1945, 6.2.)

[/. 52 & 53 Vict. c.83, 8.14.]

"public office" means any office or employment the holding or discharging of which by a person would constitute him a public officer;

"public officer" or "public servant' means any person holding any appointment or discharging the duties whether permanently or temporarily of any office the emoluments of which are wholly or in part derived from the revenues of the Colony and any employee or member of a public body, whether temporary or permanent and whether paid or unpaid and any justice of the peace;

"public place" includes every public highway, street, road, square, court, alley, lane, bridleway, footway, parade, wharf, jetty, quay, bridge, public garden or open space, and every theatre, place of public entertainment of any kind, or other place of general resort, admission to which is obtained by payment, or to which the public have access;

"public seal" means the public seal of the Colony; "registered", used with reference to a document, means registered under the provisions of the enactment applicable to the registration of such document;

by-laws;

stitute for;

**regulations" Includes rules, rules of court and

"repeat" includes rescind, revoke, cancel or sub-

"rules of court" means, when used in relation to any court, rules made by the authority having for the time being power to make rules and orders regulating the practice and procedure of such court;

"Secretary of State" means His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies unless another Secretary of State is indicated;

"sell" includes exchange and barler;

"sign" includes in the case of a person unable to write the making of a mark or the affixing of a chop;

"solicitor" means a person admitted to practise as a solicitor before the Supreme Court;

"standard time" means the mean time of the 20th meridian east of Greenwich:

"statutory declaration" if made-

(a) in the Colony means a declaration under the Statutory Declarations Ordinance, 1893;

Ordinancs

No. 8 of

(b) in any part of the Commonwealth except the 1808. Colony means a declaration made before a justice of the peace, notary public, or other person having authority therein under any legal provision for the time being in force in such part to take or receive a declaration;

(c) in any other place, means a declaration before a British Consul or person having authority under any Act for the time being in force to take or receive a declaration;

"street" or "road" includes any highway, street, road, bridge, thoroughfare, parade, square, court, alley, lanc, bridleway, footway, passage, or open place whether situate on land leased from the Crown or not, used or frequented by the public, or to which the public have or are permitted to have access; "summary conviction" means summary conviction by a magistrate in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932 1

Hong Kong;

Ordinance No. 41 of

"Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of 1932.

"surname" includes a clan or family name; "time" means standard time;

"treaty" means a treaty, convention or agreement made with a foreign state, together with protocols or declarations attached thereto, or independent thereof but referring thereto;

"trust territory" means a territory administered by 11 & 12 the government of any part of His Majesty's dominions under Geo. 6 the trusteeship system of the United Nations;

"United Kingdom" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

0.50, .32.

"waters of the Colony" or "Colonial waters" means all waters whether navigable or not, included within the Colony;

"will" includes any testamentary instrument; "writing" or "printing" shall include writing, f. 52 & 63 printing, lithography, photography, typewriting and every other Vict. c.63, mode of representing words or figures in a visible form; but in

5.20.] the case of a book "printing" shall not include writing or typing. Nothing in this definition shall be taken to apply to signatures; "year" means a year according to the Gregorian

calendar;