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No. 31 of 1911.
[s. 39-E
contd.]
Month.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 3.
Offence.
Person.
(10) Month
INTERPRETATION.
means calendar month unless it appears from the context that lunar month or Chinese moon intended.
is
(11) "Offence means any crime, misdemeanor, contraven- tion or other breach of the law for which a penalty is provided.
(12) "Person", and words applied to any person or in- 52 & 53 Viet, dividual, shall apply to and include, subject only to the provisions of section 35, bodies corporate, joint tenants and tenants in
c. 63, s. 19.
Per cent.
Proclama- tion.
Provided, etc.
Solicitor.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1871.
Statute, etc.
Statutory
declaration.
5 & 6 Will.
4, c. 62.
Ordinance
No. 8 of 1893.
Treaty.
Will.
Year
common.
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(13) 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.
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(14) "Proclamation means, as respects Hong Kong, a proclamation of the Governor or of the Governor in Council.
(15) "Provided
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45 or prescribed", when used in reference to any enactment, means provided or prescribed by such enact- ment, or as provided or prescribed by the provisions of such
enactment.
(16) "Solicitor'' means a legal practitioner admitted to practice as a solicitor before the Supreme Court under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871.
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(17) "Statute OT Act" means an Act of the Imperial Parliament.
(18) Statutory declaration
means a declaration made by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, or of the Statutory Declarations Ordinance, 1893.
"
(19) "Treaty means a treaty, convention or agreement made with a foreign state, together with protocols or declarations attached thereto, or independent thereof but referring thereto.
includes any testamentary instrument.
(20) ** Will
(21) " 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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No. 31 of 1911.
(s. 39-E contd.] Years of
(22) Years of age or words of a like meaning, when used in reference to the age of any person, means years accord- age. ing to English reckoning unless Chinese reckoning is expressly indicated.
PART V.
Of regulations, forms and other matters.
40.—(1) Where any Ordinance confers on any person a Extent of discretionary power to make regulations, to issue any order or make
power to
c. 63,
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to do any act, the power shall, unless the contrary intention regulations. appears, be construed as including the power, exercisable in like 52 & 53 Vict. manner and subject to the same conditions, if any, to amend, s. 32 (3). 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.
(2) 'Regulations", both in this section and generally in Meaning of this Ordinance, as well as in all other enactments, means regula- tions"
"regula
tions, rules and by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Ordinance under which they are made, and includes rules of
court.
(3) All regulations shall, unless otherwise provided, come Publication into operation on the day of their publication in the Gazette and effect. and shall have the same force and effect, shall be as binding and shall be construed for all purposes as if they had been contained in the Ordinance empowering them to be made; and any reference to the Ordinance in any enactment or in any legal document shall be construed as including the regulations in such reference.
(4) All regulations shall be laid on the table of the Legis- lative Council at the first meeting thereof after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulations shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulations shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder,
* As amended by No. 1 of 1927 [1.4.27] and No. 26 of 1937 [24.12.37].
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