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[cf. Ordin- ance No. 39 of 1948, s.2.]

[cf. 52 & 53 Vict. c.63,

s.14.]

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

"public office" means any office or employment the holding or discharging of which by a person would constitute him a public officer;

"public officer" or "public servant"

servant" means any person holding any appointment or discharging the duties whether permanently or temporarily of any office the emoluments of which are wholly or in part derived from the revenues of the Colony and any employee or member of a public body, whether temporary or permanent and whether paid or unpaid and any justice of the peace;

"public place" includes every public highway, street, road, square, court, alley, lane, bridleway, footway, parade, wharf, jetty, quay, bridge, public garden or open space, and every theatre, place of public entertainment of any kind, or other place of general resort, admission to which is obtained by payment, or to which the public have access;

"public seal" means the public seal of the Colony; "registered", used with reference to a document, means registered under the provisions of the enactment applicable to the registration of such document;

by-laws;

stitute for;

"regulations" includes rules, rules of court and

"repeal" includes rescind, revoke, cancel or sub-

"rules of court" means, when used in relation to any court, rules made by the authority having for the time being power to make rules and orders regulating the practice and procedure of such court;

"Secretary of State" means His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies unless another Secretary of State is indicated;

"sell" includes exchange and barter;

"sign" includes in the case of a person unable to write the making of a mark or the affixing of a chop;

"solicitor" means a person admitted to practise as

a solicitor before the Supreme Court;

"standard time" means the mean time of the 120th

meridian east of Greenwich;

"statutory declaration" if made—

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