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SHORT TITLE.

985

Schedule, contd.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

35. The Interpreta-

tion

Ordinance, 1911.

(No. 31 of 1911), --contd.

(9) Section 39, as amended by Ordinances Nos.

1 of 1927, 23 of 1930, 41 of 1935 and 26 of

1937, is further amended-

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(i) under the heading

A.--Official

definitions", by the substitution in para- graph (1)

(a) of the following definition for the definition in the first three lines-

(1) 'Governor' means the Governor of Governor. Hong Kong and includes the officer for the time being administering the Government of Hong Kong and also includes the Gover- nor's Deputy exercising any power which he is duly appointed to exercise under the Royal Letters Patent constituting the office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies;"

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(b) of the words "His Majesty' for the King

in the tenth line;

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(ii) under the heading B.--Colonial definitions

(a) by the substitution in paragraph (5) of the following words and figures-

principal datum, that is to say, a level 17.833 feet below the bench-mark known as 'Rifleman's Bolt', or the highest point of a copper bolt set horizontally in the wall of a storehouse on Marine Lot No. 26, in and near the main entrance to the Royal Naval Dockyard," for the words the level known as Ordnance datum (that is to say, a level which shall be notified in the Gazette) in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth lines;

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(b) by the substitution of the following paragraphs for paragraphs (13) and (14)—

(13) 'Government Analyst' includes Government for the purposes of all Ordinances any Analyst. analyst appointed by the Governor under

the Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordin- Ordinance ance, 1935.

No. 8 of 1935.

(14) 'Prison' includes any place or build- Prison. ing or portion of a building set apart or [c. No. 38 hereafter to be set apart for the purpose of of 1932, a prison under any Ordinance relating to s. 2.]

prisons.";

(c) by the repeal of the words whether issued, made, sealed, or signed before or after the commencement of this Ordin- at the end of paragraph (15);

ance.

(ii) under the heading D.-Judicial definitions

Nor-

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in

(a) by the insertion of the word thern immediately before "Ireland the second and the third lines of paragraph (1) and the second line of paragraph (2);

(b) by the substitution of the word for "the" in the second line of paragraph (8);