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"Gazette" means the British Military Administration

Gazette published for Malaya and includes any soparate British Military dministration Gazette which may be published for the ialay Peninsula;

"Legal Officer" means the officer of the Civil Affairs

Service appointed Legal Officer, Lalay Peninsula;

"Malay Peninsula" moans Malaya excluding the Settlement of Singapore and the Cocos Islands and North Keeling Island;

"Malaya" means

(a) the Settlement of Singapore, the Settlement of

Penang and the Settlement of Lalacca, all as hereinafter defined;

(b) the inlay States of Perak, Selangor, Mogri Sembilan,

Pahang, Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganunand Perlis, all islands forming part of such States and the territorial waters thereof;

"officer" means an officer commissioned or in pay as an officer in His Majesty's forces, or any arm,branch or part thereof;

"Proclamation" means any Froclamation made by or under the authority of the Supreme Allied Commander which relates to Malaya or to the Malay Peninsula;

"Region" means any one of the regions into which the

Malay Peninsula may from time to time be divided for the purposes of the British Military Administration, Malaya;

"Senior Civil Affairs Officer" means an officer of the Civil Affairs Service appointed to be in charge of a Region;

"Settlement of Malacca" includes the Settlement of

Malacca, all islands and places forming part of such Settlement and all British waters adjacent thereto;

"Settlement of Penang" includes the Settlement of Penang,

all islands and places forming part of such Settlement and all British water adjacent thereto;

"Settlement of Singapore" includes the Island of

Singapore,all other islands and places forming part of such settlement and all British waters adjacent thereto, but does not include the Cocos Islands, and North Keeling Island.

"written law"

(a) in relation to the Federated Malay States or

any Malay State includes all Enactments and all orders, proclamations, rules,by-laws and regulations (including Emergency Regulations) made by any body or person having authority under any statutory or other enactment to make the same for the Federated Malay States or any Malay State as the case may be; and

/(b)

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