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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1937.

Schedule, contd.

SHORT TITLE.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL,

57. The Piers Ordin-

ance,

1899. (No. 11 of 1899.)

58. The Crown Lands

Or-

Resumption dinance, 1900. (No. 10 of 1900.)

59. The Law Amend-

ment Ordinance,

1901.

(No. 2 of 1901.)

60. The Code of Civil

Procedure, 1901. (No. 3 of 1901.)

in

(1) Section 2 (b) is amended by the repeal

of the words or military authorities the last line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words ", military or air force authorities ".

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(2) Section 3 (2) is amended by the repeal of the words by equal monthly instal- ments in the first and second lines thereof.

(3) Section 4 (2), as enacted by Ordinance No. 4 of 1924, is amended by the repeal of the words and figures that no such revised scale of rents shall be made to take effect before the 1st day of January, 1925, and in the seventh to tenth lines thereof.

(4) Section 14 (2) is amended:-

(i) by the repeal of the word "order" in the second line thereof and the substitu- tion therefor of the word "determine";

(ii) by the repeal of the word "ordered" in the sixth line thereof and the substitu- tion therefor of the word "specified".

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(5) Section 16 is amended by the repeal of the words failure to comply in the fourth line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words

after such conviction ".

"

non-compliance

>"

(1) Section 2 (d) (iii) is amended by the repeal of the words or military forces of the Crown, including the volunteer force in the second line thereof and the sub- stitution therefor of the words military or air forces of the Crown, including the volunteer forces ".

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(2) Section 11 (1) (b) is amended by the repeal of the words or after the notice by the Colonial Secretary under section 5, as the case may be,' in the fourth and fifth lines thereof.

Sections 13 and 14 are repealed and the following section is substituted as section

13:-

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13. Subject to the express provisions Rules of of any enactment, in questions relating equity to to the custody and education of infants prevail. and generally in all matters not parti- 15 & 16 cularly mentioned in this Ordinance, in Geo. 5,

c. 49, which there was formerly or is any conflict s. 44. or variance between the rules of equity and the rules of the common law with reference to the same matter, the rules of equity shall prevail."

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(1) Section 4 is amended by the repeal of the words and figures on the 31st day of December, 1911 in the third line thereof and the insertion immediately after the