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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 4, 1936.

Numbering

of Ordin-

ances,

Ordinances to be

(2) to insert in their proper places in such Ordinances as have been amended all the provisions of the Ordinances amending the same as indicated therein as if the said amended Ordinances had been ordered to be printed as amended by such amending Ordinances; and further, where all the amendments made by such amending Ordinances are so inserted as aforesaid so that the object of such Ordinances has been effected, to treat the remainder of such Ordinances as exhausted and to omit the same:

(3) to make grammatical and typographical amendments and to revise the punctuation where in the opinion of the editor such amendment or revision is necessary :

(4) to substitute----

(a) figures for words, and

(b) in references to Ordinances, the serial number for the short title,

or vice versa, where in the opinion of the editor such substitution is convenient :

(5) to adopt a convenient standard form in all Ordinances for the interpretation sections and for the sections giving power to make regulations:

(6) to recast the marginal notes and references to the sections of Ordinances, and the headings of divisions or sub- divisions of Ordinances, where in the opinion of the editor such recasting is necessary:

(7) to make such formal alterations to names, localities, offices, titles and otherwise as may be necessary to bring any Ordinance into conformity with the circumstances of the Colony in the year 1937: and

(8) to do all such things relating to form and method as may be necessary for the perfecting of the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition).

5. The numbering of the Ordinances contained in the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, and of the Ordinances passed after the 31st day of December, 1923, and of the sections of any such Ordinances shall be preserved unless any alteration of such numbering shall be authorised by the special Ordinances referred to in section 6 (1).

6.--(1) All omissions and amendments in the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition), other than those referred to in section 4, shall be collected by the editor and submitted to the purposes the Legislative Council in the form of one or more Ordinances.

prepared by editor for

of revision.

(2) Where a later Ordinance, the object of which is to amend an earlier Ordinance, contains new matter which cannot be inserted in the earlier Ordinance in the manner indicated by section 4 (2), and it is expedient that such new matter should be incorporated in the earlier Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the editor to effect such incorporation by one of the Ordinances mentioned in sub-section (1): and when all of such new matter has been incorporated, and the amendments, if any, in such later Ordinance have been inserted in their proper places as indicated by section 4 (2)

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