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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1897.

ing of the Ordinance, so far as may be necessary or exped- ient for the purpose of bringing the Ordinance into opera- tion at the date of the commencement thereof, subject to this restriction, that any instrument made under the power shall not, unless the contrary intention appears in the Or- dinance, or the contrary is necessary for bringing the Ordi- nance into operation, come into operation until the Ordinance comes into operation,

to power given to any authority to make rules. B.G.Ordi

35.-1.) Where an Ordinance, whether passed before or General after the commencement of this Ordinance, confers power provisions on any authority to make rules, the following provisions with respect shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have effect with reference to the making and operation of such rules :—

(a.) Any rule may be at any time amended, varied, rescinded, or revoked by the same authority and in the same manner by and in which it was made; (b.) There may be anexed to the breach of any rule 3).

such penalty, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, as the rule-making authority may think fit, and any such penalty may be sued for and recovered under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the exercise of summary jurisdiction by Magis- trates:

(e.) No rule shall be inconsistent with the provisions

any Ordinance;

of

(d.) All rules shall be published in The Gazette and

shall have the force of law; and

(e.) The production of a copy of The Gazette contain- ing any rule, or of any copy of any rule purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall be primâ facie evidence, in all Courts and for all other purposes whatsoever, of the duo making and tenor of such rule.

(2.) In this section, the word "rules" includes rules and regulations, regulations, and by-laws.

nance, s 21. See also 52 & 53 Pict, e, 63,

enactments.

52 & 53 Vict.

36. Where this Ordinance, or any Ordinance passed References to after the commencement of this Ordinance, repeals and repealed re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Ordinance, references in any other Ordinance to the 2, C3, 8, 34 (1.) provisions so repealed, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the provisions so re-enacted.

37. The rules of interpretation and construction herein Application of contained with respect to Ordinances shall, unless the con- rules of inter-

pretation, trary intention appears, apply, mutatis mutandis and so

etc. to statutes far as they are not inapplicable thereto, to other statutes, generally. except Acts of Parliament, in the same manner and to the .. oli same extent as they apply to Ordinances.

Provisions as to Acts of Parliament.

nance, s. 29.

Mode of citing Acts of

Parliament.

52 & 53 Vict.

38.-(1.) In any Ordinance, instrument, or document, an Act of Parliament may be cited by reference to the short title, if any, of the Act, either with or without a reference to the chapter, or by reference to the regnal year in which the 8.63, H. 35. Act was passed, and where there are more statutes or ses- sions than one in the same regnal year, by reference to the statute or the session, as the case may require, and where there are more chapters than one, by reference to the chap- ter, and any enactment may be cited by reference to the section or sub-section of the Act in which the enactment is contained.

(2.) Where any Ordinance passed after the commence- ment of this Ordinance contains such reference as aforesaid, the reference shall, unless a contrary intention appears, be road as referring, in the case of statutes included in any revised edition of the statutes purporting to be printed by authority, to that edition, and in the case of statufes not so included, and passed before the reign of King George the First, to the edition prepared under the direction of the Record Commission; and in other cases to the copies of the statutes purporting to be printed by the Queen's Printer, or under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

(3.) In any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this Ordinance a description or citation of a portion of an Act of Parliament shall, unless the contrary intention appears, he construed as including the word, section, or other part mentioned or referred to as forming the begin- ning and as forming the end of the portion comprised description or citation.

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