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(Cap. 1) (G.N.A. 37/56).

(G.N.A.

98/56). (Vol. IX

pp 406, 407 * 425).

Commence meat of sections 25 nod 27.

Pravision for a reprint of the principal Ordinance as

amended.

(Cap. 1).

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section as the repealed Ordinance), the principal Ordinance shall apply to such building works and to any building erected in consequence thereof, and in its application thereto shall be construed as though there were substituled for any reference in the principal Ordinance, whether express or by virtue of the provisions of paragraph (h) of section 14 of the Interpretation Ordinance, to the Building (Planning) Regulations. 1956, or the Building (Construction) Regulations, 1956, a reference to the provisions of sections 4 to 21 inclusive, sections 23 to 33 inclusive, sections 35 to 69 inclusive, sections 71 to 78 inclusive, section 101 and section 107 of the repealed Ordinance and the provisions of the Excep- tional Buildings Regulations, the Verandahs and Balconies Regulations and the Matshed Regulations.

28. Sections 25 and 27 shall be deemed to have bad effect as from the 1st day of June, 1996, being the date of commencement of the principal Ordinance.

29. (1) The Government Printer shaft, it directed by the Governor, cause to be prepared and published a reprint of the principal Ordinance incorporating therein all additions, omissions, substitutions and amend- ments effected by this Ordinance and by any other enactment amending the principal Ordinance, and shaft. if so directed, print as part of such reprint and as an appendix thereto section I and sections 26, 27 and 28 of this Ordinance together with this section.

(2) The publication of such reprint and appendix shall be notified by the Colonial Secretary in the Gazette and, with effect from the date of such notification, such reprint and appendix shall be deemed authentic copies of the principal Ordinance as amended and of this Ordinance and shall be judicially noticed as such, and further shall be deerned to be official copies for the purposes of subsection (3) of sec- tion 7 of the Interpretation Ordinance.

(3) If any inconsistency is shown to exist between a provision of any enactment authorized to be published in such reprint and appendix and that provision as published in such reprint and appendix, the pro- vision as enacted shall prevail.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of November, 1959.

Shaman

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat BL1/741/5200)

HONG KONG

No. 45 of 1959.

E assent.

Alban

ha

Governor.

10th December, 1959.

An Ordinance to provide for the Establishment and Functions of an Advisory and Consultative Body for the New Territories and for purposes connected therewith-

[1th December, 1959.)

WHEREAS the HEUNG YEE KUK has in the past served as a Preamble. valuable advisory body to the Government on New Territories affairs and has been a forum where leaders of opinion in the Territories have been able to exchange views;

AND WHEREAS it is now considered desirable that the Heung Yee Kuk should become a statutory advisory body with a constitution so framed as to ensure that it will as far as possible be truly representative of informed and responsible opinion in the New Territories;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows--