CO129-592-16 Future policy- interpretation proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945 — Page 5

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PART III

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In all enactments and notifications the following words shall have the meanings hemby assigned to them, unless otherwise provided or unless the context otherwise requires.

(1) "Enactment" means any provision made by competent authority having the force of law, and any part of such enactment, and include s any provision made or announced by Proclamation and any regulations, rules or orders made in virtue of powers conferred by any Proclamation.

(2) "Gazette" means the publication known as "the British Military Administration (Hong Kong) Gazette".

(3) "Law of the Colony" or "laws in force in the Colony" includes such of the laws of England, enactments of the local legislature and other provisions made by competent authority and having the force of law as were in force in the Colony on the 24th December, 1941.

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"Month" means calendar month unless it appears from the

context that lunar month or Chinese "moon" is intended.

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(5) "Offence means any crime, misdeaneanor, contravention of, failure to comply with, or other breach of the Law of the Colony or any enactment for which a penalty is provided.

(6) "Ordinance" means any Ordinance of the Colony which was

in force on the 24th December, 1941.

(7) "Person" and wards applied to any person or individual, shall apply to and include, unless the contrary intention appears, body corporate.

(8) "Prison" includes any place or building or portion of a building set apart or hereafter to be set apart for the purposes of a prison.

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Proclamation" means a proclamation issued by the General Officer Commanding the British and Allied Forces in the Colony, or by any person authorised by him in that behalf,

(10) "Regulations" includes rules, by-laws and orders.

(11) "Statutory declaration" means a declaration made by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, or of the Statutory Declarations Ordinance, 1893, and during the period of military administration any person appointed in that behalf by the Chief Civil Affairs Officer shall be deemed to be an authorised officer before whom such a statutory declaration may be declared.

(12) "Year" means a year according to the Gregorian calendar unless it appears from the context that a Chinese year is intended.

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PART IV

Where any Proclamation or other enactment confers on any person a discretionary power to make regulations, to issue any order or to do any act, the power shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including the power, exerciseable in like manner and subject to the same conditions, if any, to amend, vary, rescind, revoke or suspend the regulations made or order issued, or any part thereof, and to make or issue new regulations or a new order, or to abstain from doing the act.