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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 31. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 4th February, 1926:-

C.S.O. 2942/24.

[No. 20-21,1.26.-4.]

A BILL

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

Savings.

Appointment of editor and title of edition.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to authorise the preparation of an edition of the regulations, rules and by- laws in force in the Colony on the 31st day of December, 1925.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Regulations Ordinance, 1926.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) "Regulations" shall include -

(i) all regulations, rules, orders, by-laws, forms, and tables of fees or rents or duties, made in pursuance of powers conferred by any Ordinance;

(ii) all consents, exemptions, permissions and other orders and directions, which are given or granted or made in pursuance of powers conferred by any Ordinance and which have the effect of modifying any Ordinance or regulation either generally or with respect to a class of persons or things.

(b) "The Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923" means the edition of the Ordinances of Hongkong prepared by Arthur Dyer Ball, Esquire, and referred to in the proclamation of the Governor, dated the 18th day of September, 1924, and made in virtue of Ordinance No. 18 of 1923.

3.-(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the operation of-

(a) any proclamation by His Majesty ; (b) any order of His Majesty in Council; (c) any proclamation by the Governor; or (d) any resolution of the Legislative Council.

(2) Nothing contained in the Ordinances of Hongkong,. 1844-1923, shall be deemed to affect, or at any time to have affected, the validity of any regulation made after the 31st day of December, 1923,

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint some fit and proper person as editor, hereinafter called i "the editor", to prepare an edition of the regulations in force in the Colony on the 31st day of December, 1925.

(2) The said edition shall be called "The Regulations of Hongkong, 1844-1925 ".

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