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(3.) The provisions of the preceding sub-section shall apply to all proclamations issued and to all rules, orders, regulations, or by-laws heretofore or hereafter made, in virtue of any Ordinance, now in force or hereafter to be passed.

(4.) The Registrar shall carefully preserve and file all such Ordinances, proclamations, rules, orders, regulations, or by-laws so transmitted to him.

(5.) Any person shall be entitled to inspect such Or- dinances and other documents aforesaid during the office hours of the Registry on payment of twenty-five cents for each inspection not exceeding three hours and to take copies or extracts therefrom for certification by the Re- gistrar, on payment of twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-five words for each copy or extract

10.-(1) Ordinance No. 12 of 1909 (The Statute Law (Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1900) is repealed.

(2.) The Revised Edition, so far as Ordinances con- tained in it are concerned, is hereby declared to have been the true and only version of those Ordinances, all va- riances between such Ordinances as printed therein and the sealed copies thereof deposited in the Registry under Or- dinance No. 1 of 1887, and anything in Ordinance No. 1 of 1887, to the contrary notwithstanding ; and in so far as there are such variances the Ordinances as contained in such sealed copies are to be taken to be and to have been repealed by Ordinance No. 12 of 1900.

(3.) This section shall come into force at the same time as the New Revised Edition.

11. From and after the date of the proclamation re- ferred to in section 6 (4), the Revised Edition shall cease to be the sole and only proper statute book of the Colony up to the date of the latest of the Ordinances contained therein, and subjectly to the provisions of section 9, it shall be lawful to use the New Revised Edition in all Courts of Jus- tice and for all purposes whatsoever as being the authorised statute book of the Colony in regard to all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council up to the end of the year 1911; Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any Ordinance which may be passed, before the issue of such proclamation, for the repeal, alteration or amendment of any arlier Ordinance after such Ordinance has been printed in the New Revised Edition.

12. Where in any enactment or in any document of whatever kind, reference is made to an Ordinance which is affected by or under the operation of this Ordinance, such reference shall, where necessary and practicable, be deemed to extend and apply to the corresponding enact- ment as contained the New Revised Edition.

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An Ordinance to amend the Law with respect to P'ersous carrying on business as Money- lenders.

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 Money- Short title. lenders Ordinance, 1911".

money.

2.--(1.) Where proceedings are taken in any Court Re-opening by a money-lender for the recovery of any money of transac- lent after the commencement of this Ordinance, or tions of the enforcement of any agreement or security made lender. or taken after the commencement of this Ordinance, in respect of money lent either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, and there is evi-

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