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ANNEX C TO XCR(??)2€

A BILL

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Amend the Interpretation and General Clauses Crdinance.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the

Interpretation and General Clauses (Amendment)

Ordinance 1977.

Amendment of section 3. (cap. 1.)

2.

Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is

amended by deleting the definitions of standard time::

and "summer time".

Repeal and replacement of sections 67 and 68.

3. Sections 67 and 68 of the principal ordinance

are repealed and replaced by the following new section

"Hong Kong Time.

67. (1) Whenever any expression

of time occurs in any ordinance the

time referred to is Hong Kong Time.

(2) For the purposes of subsection

(1), "Hong Kong Time" means the time

used for general purposes throughout

Hong Kong namely, 8 hours, or such

other period as may be determined by

the Legislative Council by resolution,

in advance of Greenwich Mean Time.