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Fourth Schedule.
(Cap. 227),
(23 of 1957).
Fitub Schedule.
"Kowloon" means the area specified in the Fourth Schedule:
"law" means any law for the time being in force in, having legislative
effect in, extending to, or applicable in, the Colony: "Legislative Council" means the Legislative Council of Hong Kong:
“magistrate” means—
(a) any person appointed to be a permanent, special or marine
magistrate under the Magistrates Ordinance; and
(5) two justices of the peace sitting together, to whom subsection
(2) of section 7 of the Magistrates Ordinance applics: "master". when used with reference to a vessel, means the person (except a pilot) having for the time being command or charge of the vessel;
"medical practitioner", "registered medical practitioner" and any words importing that a person is recognized by any Ordinance to be a medical practitioner in Hong Kong or a member of the medical profession in Hong Kong, mean a person duly registered as, or deemed to be registered as, a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance 1957; "month" means calendar month;
"movable property" means property of every description except im-
movable property:
"New Kowloon" means the area specified in the Fifth Schedule; "New Territories" means the territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898;
"oath" and "affidavit" include, in the case of persons allowed or required by law to affirm instead of swearing, affirmation; and "swear" in the like case includes affirm;
"occupy" includes use, inhabit, be in possession of or enjoy the land or premises to which the word relates, otherwise than as a mere servant or for the more purpose of the care, custody or charge thereof;
"offence" includes any crime, treason, felony or misdemeanor and any contravention or other breach of, or failure to comply with, any provision of any Ordinance, for which a penalty is provided: "officer administering the Government" means the person who succeeds to or is appointed to the administration of the Government of the Colony in accordance with Article XVII of the Letters Patent or under any corresponding provision contained in any other imperial enactment amending or substituted for the same;
'or". "other" and "otherwise" shall be construed disjunctively and not as implying similarity, unless the word "similar" or some other word of like meaning is added;
"Order in Council" means an order made by Her Majesty in Her Privy
Council:
"Ordinance" and "enactment” mean-
(a) any Ordinance enacted by the Governor by and with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council;
(b) any proclamation made by the British Military Administration on or between the 1st day of September, 1945, and the 1st day of May, 1946; and
(c) any subsidiary legislation made under any such Ordinance or
proclamation;
"Parliament" and "Imperial Partiament" mean the Parliament of England, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom:
"per cent", when used in relation to a rate of interest payable in any circumstances, means the rate of interest specified payable in respect of a year, unless it is expressly provided that it is payable in respect of any other period;
"person" includes any public body and any body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, and this definition shall apply notwithstanding that the word "person" occurs in a provision creating or relating to an offence or for the recovery of any fine or compensation; "personal name" means the names other than a surname which a person most commonly adopts in conjunction with his surname or, in the case of a person having no sumame, the names which be commonly adopts:
“pier" includes every quay, wharf of jetty of whatever description con- nected to and having direct access to the shore and used or intended to be used for the purposes of a pier; quay, wharf of jetty; "police officer", and terms or expression referring to ranks in the Hong Kong Police Force shall bear the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Police Force Ordinance:
"power" includes any privilege, authority and discretion: "prescribed" and "provided", when used in or with reference to any Ordinance, mean prescribed or provided by that Ordinance or by subsidiary legislation made under that Ordinance;
“prison" means any place or building or portion of a building set apart for the purpose of a prison under any Ordinance relating to prisoos:
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