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Construction

of references to repealed or amended Ordinances.

Expenses of preparation and

publication

Transitional.

Repeal

(20 of 1948).

17. Whenever in any Ordinance, or in any document of whatever kind, any reference is made to any provision of any Ordinance affected by or under the operation of this Ordinance, the reference shall, where necessary and practicable, be construed as a reference to the correspond- ing provision in the revised edition or in any booklet published under section 13,

18. The Governor may, by warrant addressed to the Accountant General, direct the payment of all expenses of and incidental to the preparation, publication, distribution and sale of the revised edition and of booklets published under section 13.

19. The powers conferred by section 13 on the Attorney General shall, in relation to any period between the 1st day of January, 1965, and the next thirty-first day of December after the effective date, be construed as if-

(a) the words "the first day of January in every year after" in

subsection (1) of section 13 were deleted; and

(b) for the reference in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 13 to "the preceding thirty-first day of December" there were substituted a reference to "any thirty-first day of December after the 1st day of January, 1965”.

20. The Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1948 is repealed with effect from the effective date.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 22nd day of December, 1965, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

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Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat GR7/3231/65)