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LASG Paper No.
Part b
CONFIDENTIAL
Adaptation of Laws - Consultation Paper No. 3
Analysis and Discussion
Misrepresentation Ordinance (Cap. 284)
Perpetuities and Accumulations Ordinance (Cap. 257)
Law Amendment and Reform (Consolidation)
Ordinance (Cap. 23)
BACKGROUND
There is a common law presumption that the Crown will not
statute in the absence of express words or unless by
implication. The interpretation and General Clauses
be bound by a
necessary
Ordinance (cap. 1) has incorporated this common law rule in its
section 66 thereby giving statutory effect to the rule. All the
ordinances with the legislative intent to bind the Crown therefore
include a section which specifies that "This Ordinance binds the
similar wording. Please see the related
crown immunity from statutes" prepared
Crown"
provides for
paper "Adaptation of Laws :
by the Legal Folicy Division for details.
2.
The Crown is not defined
to
the ordinances.
IM
the Monarch whose powers
constitutional usage, the term refers
are by constitutional convention to be exercised by the executive
arm of the government as well as by the legislature.
+
Nowadays, the
to the
zeference
Crown is often used in સ્ત્ર somewhat broad sense in
functions of government and the public administration.
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