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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 47.-The following bill was read a second time, and passed through committee, on the 25th February, 1927. The passages shown below in italics were added in committee. Square brackets indicate omissions.

C.8.0. 1059.26,

[No. 18-28.2.27.-2.1

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment.

No. 31 of

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Interpretation

Ordinance, 1911.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong 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, 1927.

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2. Section 25 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911. of Ordinance is amended by the insertion of the words privilege'

between the word “power” and the word “may” in the third line of sub-section (2), and by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof :-

1911, s. 25.

Amendment

No. 31 of

(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 to the office first above referred to.

3. Section 37 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911,

of Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the figures 1889"

for the figures 1899" in the fourth line thereof.

1911, s. 37.

Amendment

[3]. 4. Group A of section 39 of the Interpretation of Ordinance Ordinance, 1911, is amended by the addition of the 1911, 8, 394, following paragraph at the end thereof:

No. 31 of

Amendment

Clerk of Councils.

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

Councils.

[4]. 5. Paragraph (7) of Group B of section 39 of of Ordinance the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, is repealed and the

following paragraph is substituted therefor :--

No. 31 of

1911, s. 39

B (7).

Harbour.

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(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).