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Repeal and replace- meat of nection 8.

(z) The Supreme Court on the hearing of any petition under section 3 may order the cancellation of the memorial of re-entry so far as the same affects the lands and tenements in respect of which the petition has been presented.

(3) If such cancellation is ordered by the Governor in Council or by the Supreme Court, it shall be effected in manner hereinafter mentioned.".

Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

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"Cancella- tion of memorial of re- entry.

8. A memorial of re-entry by the Crown shall be deemed to have been cancelled in respect of the whole or part of the lands and tenements affected by such memorial if a memorandum, signed by the Eand Officer, to the effect that the memorial is cancelled in respect of the whole or part of such lands, and tene- ments by order of the Governor in Council or of the Supreme Court, is written or endorsed thereon, and, immediately on such cancellation, the memorial, so far as it affects the lands and tenements specified in such memorandum, shall become void to all intents and purposes as if the same had never been made or re- gistered, and the lands and tenements described in such memorandum shall be ipso facto re-vested in the lessee, his executors, administrators, or assigns, for all his or their previous estate and interest therein, and the Crown lease thereof, and every mortgage, charge, or lien previously existing thereon, shall be deemed to be as valid and subsisting in every respect as if no such re-entry has been effected by the Crown.".

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 21st day of December, 1955.

Debut Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat 17/3181/47)

HONG KONG

NG. ĠI OF 1955-

I assent.

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vernor.

22nd December, 1055.

An Ordinance further to amend the Interpretation Ordinance,

Chapter 1.

[23rd December, 1955.]

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 Interpretation Short title. (Amendment) Ordinance, 1955-

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Section 3 of the Interpretation Ordinance (hereinafter Amendment referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended—

(2) in subsection (ro), by the deletion of the words "Pro- vided that if the Governor considers it expedient that there should be a change in the style of any public office or department he may by notice in the Gasette declare" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"Provided that the Governor may by notice in the Gasette declare a change in the style of any public office or department and";

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of section

(Cap. 1).