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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.

HONGKONG.

No. 51 of 1911.

An Ordinance for further promoting the Revision of the Law by amending certain errors con- tained in, as well as the language used in, the Ordinances now in force.

IS

F. D. LUGARD, Governor.

[29th November, 1911.]

WHEREAS with a view to the further revision of the Statute Law of the Colony and particularly to the improvement of the New Revised Edition of the Laws authorised by Ordinance No. 19 of 1911, it is expedient, in accordance with the provisions of section 6 (1) of that Ordinance, that minor errors in many Ordinances now in force should be collected and amended in one Ordinance, and that certain further amendments should be made with a view to simplifying and making clearer the language used in those Ordin-

ances:-

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 Law short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1911.

2. This Ordinance shall come into force by Commence Proclamation of the Governor.

ment of Ordinance.

3. In this Ordinance, expressions similar in Interpreta- form to the following:

"No. 1 of 1844" indicate an Ordinance

of the year referred to together with

its serial number;

and the letters and words s.", Ss.' "sub-s.", "sub-ss.", indicate the words " Sec-

tion", " sections

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sections", respectively.

sub-section" and "sub-

tion.

ments.

4. The words indicated in the following sub- General sections are repealed and replaced by the words amend- following the words "there shall be read" wherever they occur in all Ordinances now in force; and in all editions of the Laws of Hong-

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