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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 374.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 31st December, 1926 :--

C.S.O. 1059/26.

[No. 18-13.12.26.-1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Interpretation

Ordinance, 1911.

BE it enacted by the Governor of long Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpreta- tion Amendment Ordinance, 1926.

2. Section 25 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, of Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following sub-section

at the end thereof :-

No. 31 of

1911, s. 25.

A mendment

(4) Where any Ordinance gives power to make an appointment to any office, it shall not be necessary in any such appointment to name any particular individual and the appointment may be of the holder of any other office in the name of that office, in which case the person who is from time to time for the time being performing the duties of the office last above referred to shall be deemed to have been appointed the office first above referred to.

3. Group A of section 39 of the Interpretation of Ordinance Ordinance, 1911, is amended by the addition of the

following paragraph at the end thereof;-

No. 31 of

1911, 8. 394.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 31 of 1911, s. 39

B (7).

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Clerk of Councils.

(14) "Clerk of Councils" means the per- son appointed by the Governor to be Clerk to the Executive Council and the Legislative Council, and includes any person appointed by the Governor to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.

4. Paragraph (7) of Group B of section 39 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, is repealed "and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :——

Harbour. (7) "Harbour" means the harbour of Victoria and includes the waters of the Colony within the following boundaries :-

On the east-A straight line drawn from the westernmost extremity of Siu Chau Wan Point to the westernmost extremity of A Kung Ngam Point (sometimes known as Kung Am).

On the west A straight line drawn from the westernmost point of the Island of Hong Kong to the westernmost point of Green Island, thence a straight line drawn from the westernmost point of Green Is- land to the westernmost point of Stone- cutters Island, and thence a straight line drawn true north from the westernmost extremity of Stonecutters Island to the mainland.

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