THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
HONGKONG.
No. 31 OF 1911.
An Ordinance to amend and codify the law as to the Interpretation of Terms and as to Common Forms used in Ordinances.
LS
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
[25th August, 1911.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Commeil thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ordinance, 1911 ".
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Interpretation Short title.
2. This Ordinance shall apply to the Colony of Hong- Application kong and its dependencies, including the New Territories, of the Or unless it is otherwise expressed.
PART L
Of Ordinances Generally.
dinance.
3. All Ordinances now in force or hereafter to be passed Application shall, except as provided by section 4 of Ordinance No. 34 of subse- of 1910, extend to the New Territories unless it other- quent wise appear from express provision or by necessary im- plication.
Ordinances.
4. The provisious of this Ordinance shall apply
Application
(a.) to this Ordinance and to all Ordinances here- of provisions
after to be passed, unless the contrary inten- of Orlin-
ance.
tion appear:
(b.) to Ordinances now in forec unless otherwise
expressly herein provided.
5.—(1.) Every Ordinance shall, unless otherwise pro- Commence- vided therein, come into operation on the day of its publi- ment of eation in the Gazette..
Ordinances and Acts of
(2.) Statutes of the Imperial Parliament extending Parliament to the Colony, which require any act to be done in in the the Colony, or forbid the commission of any net in the Colony, Colony, or impose any duty on or create any right in any person in the Colony, and which do not contain any ex- press provision for bringing them into operation in the Colony, shall come into operation on the day of a notifica- tion by the Governor to that effect in the Gazette.
6. This Ordinance shall come into operation by pro- Commenec- clamation of the Governor, which shall not be issued until ment of this after the Legislative Council has authorised the use of the Ordinance. New Edition of the Laws of Hongkong now in course of preparation.
7. The word commencemeur", when used with re- Definition of ference to any enactment, shall mean the day on which the enactment comes into operation.
*Commence- Dicht "
Time of
8. Where any enactment, or any proclamatiou, notice, order, warrant, scheme, or letters patent, made, granted, or commence- issued, under a power conferred by any enactment, or by ment. any competent authority, is expressed to come into opera- tion on a particular day, the same shall be construed as coming into operation on the expiration of the previons day.
9. Where the operation of any Ordinance is suspended Exercise of and confers power to make any appointment, to make, grant, statutory or issue any instrument, to give notice, to prescribe forms, powers or to do any other thing for the purpose of bringing the Ordinance into operation, that power may be exercised Passing an before the Ordinanco comes into operation.
between
commence- ment of
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