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6. It should be noticed that the following results also flow
from this amendment of the harbour limits:
(a) Vessels affected by the quarantine Regulations in
Table L in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordi-
1899, if arriving in Hong Kong between 6 p.m.
and 6 a.m. will have to anchor outside Lyemun Pass.
(b) Under Regulation 7 of Table M in the Schedule to the
Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, vessels exceeding
60 tons will have to reduce their speed to 9 knots
upon entering Lyemun Pass from the east.
Sub-section (4) of section 40 of the Interpretation Ordi-
nance, 1911 frequently caused difficulty and embarrassment, as
it threw doubt upon the operation of orders, etc., made under
Ordinances, which were not in fact gazetted. Some orders made
ry.
under Ordinances are obviously not of the kind that call for
gazetting. Many of them are essentially particular, e.g., an
order under section 5 of Ordinance No.5 of 1870, for refunding
a particular fee, or an order for compensation, under section
54 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, in respect of particular slaught-
ered cattle. The sub-section, also, if read literally, appeared
to make the operation of a magistrate's warrent depend on its
being gazetted, which would have been absurd. Further, it
tended to throw doubt on the power to rescind a deportation
order,
For these reasons the sub-section has been repealed
by section 6 of this Ordinance. For similar reasons the word
"orders" has been deleted in sub-section (2). It need hardly
be said that all orders, made under Ordinances, which are in
the nature of general legislation, will continue to be gazetted
as heretofore.
8.
Section 7 corrects a misprint in section 47 of the Inter-
pretation Ordinance, 1911.
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