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Revision of

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with modifications the provisions of that imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with those modifications:

Provided that every departure from the original text of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention shall be clearly shown by notes, refer- ences or other similar means.

(3) The commissioner may also cause the reprint referred to in subsection (1) to be published in such number of separate booklets, in the manner prescribed by section 8, or in such other form as ho considers convenient.

13. (1) As soon as practicable after the first day of January in every year after the effective date, the Attorney General shall, subject to subsection (3) and to the powers of omission under subsection (1) of section 4 conferred on him by subsection (5).

(a) cause to be prepared and published in the form of a separate booklet, a new revised edition of any Ordinance that has been amended during the period of twelve months ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December:

(8) cause to be prepared and published in the form of separate booklets any new Ordinances enacted during the said period, other than Ordinances the sole or substantial effect of which was to amend other Ordinances;

(c) cause to be prepared and published in the form of a booklet. sither separately or together with any other such enactment or instrument, a new revised edition of any imperial enactment, treaty or convention already included in the revised edition that has been amended or varied during the said period; (d) cause to be published booklets containing such imperial enact- ments, treaties or conventions enacted, made or agreed to during the said period as he considers may usefully bo published; and

(e) cause to be prepared and published a new table of contents and index to the revised edition, together with a chronological list of Ordinances and a list of the current editions of the laws. (2) In any booklet published pursuant to subsection (1), the law shall be stated as it was on the preceding thirty-first day of December and shall contain at the beginning thereof the year of that thirty-first day of December.

(3) The Attorney General shall not be required to prepare or publish a booklet containing a new revised edition of any Ordinance. imperial enactment, treaty or convention that has been amended or

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varied if he considers that the amendments or variations are not suffi- ciently extensive to justify the preparation and publication thereof, but all such amendments and variations shall be contained in a separate booklet of minor amendments and indicated in the annual index.

(4) The Attomey General shall transmit to the Governor a copy of every booklet published under this section and with effect from such date as the Governor may specify by notice in the Gazette any such booklet containing any Ordinance shall be without any question what- soever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper laws of the Colony in respect of that Ordinance.

(5) For the purposes of this section, the Attorney General shall have and perform, mutatis mutandis, the powers and duties conferred or imposed by this Ordinance upon the commissioner.

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14. The Attomey General shall, as soon as practicable after any Publication date specified in any notice published under subsection (4) of section 13, of lists of cause to be published in the Gazette a list of the titles of all Ordinances Current laws. in force in Hong Kong and the year of the last published edition thereof.

edition.

15. (1) Copies of the revised edition compiled in the manner Distribution provided by section 8 and of any booklet published under section 13 of revised shall be distributed without charge to such persons, officers, departments and institutions as the Governor may direct.

(2) There shall be offered to the public such number of copies so compiled and booklets so prepared at such price as the Governor may direct.

(3) Any person may, on payment of such fee as the Governor may direct, become entitled to receive a copy of each booklet published under section 13 and issued in any one year.

(4) The Government Printer shall, on the application of a sub- scriber, supply him with all the booklets to which he is entitled.

16. (1) The Attorney General may, by onder published in the Rectification Gazette, rectify any clerical or printing error appearing in the revised of errors. edition or in any booklet published under section 13, or rectify in a manner not inconsistent with the powers of revision conferred by this Ordinance any other error so appearing.

(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council without unreasonable delay, and, if a resolu- tion is passed at the next meeting of the Legislative Council held after the meeting at which the order is so laid that the order be annulled, it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder, or to the making of a new order.