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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

SUPPLEMENT No. 3, JANUARY 27, 1950.

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Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.

11 & 12 Geo. 6 c.56, s.32.

Ordinance No. 41 of 1935.

[cf. 52 & 53 Vict. c.63, s.3.]

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

8.3.]

other than the Imperial Parliament or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession;

"magistrate" includes marine magistrates and two justices of the peace sitting together, to whom subsection (2) of section 7 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, applies;

“mandated territory" means a territory administered by the government of any part of His Majesty's dominions in accordance with a mandate from the League of Nations;

"medical practitioner", or any words importing a person recognized at law as a practitioner in medicine or surgery or as a member of any branch of the medical profession, means a medical practitioner duly registered or deemed to be a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935;

"month" means calendar month;

"New Kowloon" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated in red and shown upon a plan marked "New Kowloon" dated the 8th day of December, 1937, signed by the Director of Public Works, countersigned by the Governor and deposited in the Land Office;

"New Territories" means the additional territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898 ;

"oath" or "affidavit" includes, in the cases of persons allowed or required by law to affirm instead of swearing, affirmation; and "swear", in the like cases, includes affirm;

"occupy" includes use, inhabit, be in possession of or enjoy the premises in respect whereof the word is used, otherwise than as a mere servant and for the mere purpose of the care, custody and charge thereof;

"offence" means any crime, misdemeanor, contra- vention or other breach of the law for which a penalty is provided;

"officer administering the Government" means the officer who succeeds to or is appointed to the administration of the Government of the Colony;

"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 His lajesty in His Privy Council;

"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 body of persons corporate or [cf, 52 & 53

Viet. e.63, unincorporate and this interpretation shall apply notwithstanding ss. 2 & 19.] that the word "person" occurs in a provision creating or relating to an offence or for the recovery of any fine or any 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 surname, the names which he commonly adopts;

"pier" includes every pier, wharf or jetty of whatever description and any vessel, hulk, pontoon or other structure, fixed or floating, connected to and having direct access to the shore, and used or intended to be used for the purposes of a pier or wharf;

"police officer" and terms or expressions referring to ranks in the Police Force shall bear the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Police Force Ordinance, 1948;

Ordinance

No. 41 of

"power" includes privilege, authority and discretion; 1948. "prescribed" or "provided" when used in reference

to any enactment means prescribed or provided by or under such enactment;

[ef. Ordin- ance No. 38

s.2.]

"prison" includes any place or building or portion of a building set apart or hereafter to be set apart for the purpose of 1932, of a prison under any Ordinance relating to prisons;

"Privy Council" means the Lords and others for the time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;

"property" includes money, goods, choses in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal; also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;

[cf. 52 & 53 Vict. c.63, s.12(5).]

"public body" means any executive, legislative, [cf. Ordin-

ance No. 39 municipal or urban council, any Government department or

of 1948, undertaking, any local or public authority or undertaking, any s.2.] board, commission, committee or other body, whether paid or unpaid, which is invested with or is performing, whether permanently or temporarily, duties of a public nature;