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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 2, 1911.

HONGKONG.

No. 19 of 1911.

An Ordinance to authorise the publication of a Newly Revised Edition of the Statute Laws of the Colony.

F. D. LUGARD,

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Governor.

[2nd June, 1911.]

WHEREAS Owing to the great number of Amending aud Consolidating Ordinances which have been passed since the publication of the Revised Edition of the Laws of the Colony by Sir John Carrington, Kt., formerly Chief Jus- tice of Hongkong, that Edition is in need of revisiou, and it is expedient to authorise the publication of a Newly Revised Edition of the Laws of the Colony :

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 Statute Laws Short title. (New Revised Edition) Őrdinance, 1911 ".

Interpreta

2. In this Ordinance- "Revised Edition" means the Revised Edition of the tion, Laws of Hongkong prepared by His Honour Sir John Carrington, Knight, C.M.G., formerly Chief Justice of the Colony, and authorised to be used by proclamation of the Governor, dated 20th July, 1904, made in virtue of Ordinance No. 12 of 1900.

New Revised Edition' means the newly Revised Edition of the Laws of Hongkong authorised by this Or-

dinance.

Issue New

3.--(1.) His Honour Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, Authority to Knight, Chief Justice of Hongkong, hereinafter called the Editor to Editor, is hereby authorised to prepare a new and revised Revised edition of the Ordinances of the Colony, including those Edition of contained in the Revised Edition, to make such necessary the Laws. arrangements for publishing the same, and for the supply of copies to the Government, and for the reprinting of the Edition in case of need, as the Governor shall approve.

(2.) In case the said Sir Francis Taylor Piggott is unable from any cause to complete the New Revised Edi- tion the Governor may appoint some other fit and proper person or persons to complete the work, subject to such equitable arrangements as may be agreed upon between the Governor and the said Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, or his representatives, or failing such agreement, as the At- torney General shall determine.

4. In the preparation of the New Revised Edition the Powers of Editor shall have the following powers in regard to the Editor. Ordinances included therein:

(¿) to omit-

(a.) all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances which have been repealed;

(5.) all introductory words of enactment; (c.) prefatory words to short titles,

(d.) headings of sub-divisions of Ordinances which in the opinion of the Editor are not necessary to the proper interpretation of the Ordinances, so long as they are not headings or titles of Parts, where an Ordinance is divided into Parts, in which case such omis- sion shall not be made, nor shall any alteration in the headings or titles of such Parts be made, unless they are included in one of the Ordin- ances mentioned in section 6;

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