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Repeal and replace ment of section 18.

Blaving.

7. Section 18 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section-

"Power of

Governor in Council

to make regulations.

18. The Governor in Council may by regulations prescribe or provide for-

(a) the issue of medical certificates of death; and

(b) anything which by the provisions of this Ordinance is required to be prescribed."

8. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be taken to affect adversely the status conferred by virtue of the provisions of the principal Ordinance upon any person duly registered under the provisions of the principal Ordinance immediately before the 1st day of July, 1953-

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 24th day of June, 1953.

HỒNG KÔNG

No. 20 OF 1953-

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat 8/3231/53)

I assent,

Akhan than

Governor. 16th July, 1953-

An Ordinance to provide for the observance of summer time, and

to fix a basis for the summer time period.

[17th July, 1953-]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Summer Time Short Ordinance, 1953.

Litle.

2. (1) The time for general purposes in the Colony shall Advance of during the period of summer time be one hour in advance of certain standard time as defined in the Interpretation Ordinance.

time for

(z) The period of summer time shall be the period between 3.30 (standard time) in the morning of the first Sunday after the 17th day of March and 3.30 (summer time) in the morning of the first Sunday after the goth day of October in each year.

period. (Сар. 1).

3. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (8) of Application. section 3 of the Interpretation Ordinance, wherever any reference

to a point of time occurs in any enactment or legal document the time referred to, if it is to be construed as a reference to a time