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Revised Edition of the Laws.

[1971 Ed.

Powers and

duties of Attorney General.

Publication of

lists of titles of current laws.

(2) Where the Attorney General has exercised the powers conferred by subsection (1), he shall, as soon as practicable after the first day of January in the year following such exercise, cause to be published in the form of a separate booklet---

(a) any Ordinance into which two or more Ordinances have

been consolidated;

(b) each Ordinance into which any Ordinance has been divid-

ed; and

(c) the subsidiary legislation into which any part of an Ordin-

ance has been transferred.

(Added, 18 of 1971, s. 2)

15. (1) For the purposes of sections 13 and 14, the Attorney General may exercise and perform, mutatis mutandis, the powers and duties conferred or imposed by this Ordinance upon the Com- missioner.

(2) In any booklet published pursuant to section 13 or 14, the law shall be as it was on the preceding thirty-first day of Decem- ber and shall contain at the beginning thereof the year of that thirty- first day of December.

(3) Where a new revised edition of the subsidiary legislation made under or by virtue of an Ordinance is published in a separate booklet under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 13 or under paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section 14, such booklet shall-

(a) be part of the Chapter of the Ordinance under or by

virtue of which that subsidiary legislation is made; and (b) in addition to the other expressions required to be con-

tained therein, contain on the front page thereof-

(i) the title and Chapter number of the Ordinance under or by virtue of which that subsidiary legislation is made; and

(ii) the expression "Subsidiary Legislation”.

(4) The Attorney General shall transmit to the Governor a copy of every booklet published under section 13 or 14 and with effect from such date as the Governor may specify by notice in the Gazette any such booklet shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper law of the Colony in respect of that Ordinance, or in the case of a booklet containing subsidiary legislation only, that subsidiary legislation.

(Added, 18 of 1971, s. 2)

16. The Attorney General shall, as soon as practicable after any date specified in any notice published under subsection (4) of section 15, cause to be published in the Gazette a list of the titles of all Ordinances in force in Hong Kong and the year of the last published edition thereof.

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Mr Edwards

Legal Advisers