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Powers and duties of Deputies.

Saving.

Ordinance No. 34 of 1910.

Ordinance No. 62 of 1948.

Reference to

offices in Schedule to be deemed to refer

to Registrar

General.

Commence- ment of Ordinance and appoint- ments made prior to publication

thereof.

Certain appoint-

ments to

cease to have effect.

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

4. Any Deputy appointed under section 3 may subject to any instructions of the Governor and to the instructions of the Registrar General exercise all the powers, privileges and discretions vested in the Registrar General and shall subject to any such instructions discharge such part of the duties thereof as may be assigned to him.

5. Nothing herein contained shall derogate from the pro- visions of sections 3 and 15 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, as amended by the New Territories (Administra- tion) Ordinance, 1948, or from the provisions of any enactment empowering the Governor or any other person or body to appoint a person to any of the offices specified in the Schedule hereto or to appoint Deputies and Assistants to the persons holding such offices.

6. Whenever in any enactment or instrument, whether made or issued before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, reference is made to any of the offices in the Schedule hereto the same shall be deemed to include a reference to the Registrar General.

7. This Ordinance shall have effect as from the 1st of April, 1949, and any appointment as or to act as Registrar General or Deputy Registrar General made by the Governor prior to the publication of this Ordinance in the Gazette shall have effect as from the expiration of the 31st of March, 1949.

8. All appointments previously made by the Governor to any of the offices specified in the Schedule including any appoint- ment as Deputy or Assistant thereto shall be deemed to have ceased to have had effect as from the expiration of the 31st of March, 1949.

Land Officer.

SCHEDULE.

Registrar of Companies.

Registrar of Trade Marks and Designs.

Registrar of Patents.

Registrar of Marriages.

Official Receiver in Bankruptcy.

Official Trustee.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 13th day of April, 1949.

J. L. HAYWARD, Deputy Clerk of Councils.