THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH NOVEMBER, 1897.
Act was passed, and where there are more statutés 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 read 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 statutes 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, be 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 in the description or citation.
39.-(1.) Where by any Ordinance, whether passed he- Construction fore or after the commencement of this Ordinance, an Act of of Act of Parliament, or any portion of an Act, is declared to extend Parliament
when extended to this Colony, such Act or portion of an Act shall, unless to the Colony, the contrary intention appears, be deemed to extend to the Colony so far only as local laws and circumstances permit; and in applying such Act or portion of an Act it shall be construed with such verbal alteration, not affecting the sub- stance, as may be necessary to render the same applicable to the particular matter in question.
(2.) A Judge of the Supreme Court, or any officer or functionary exercising functions analogous to the functions of any Judge, officer, or functionary referred to in such Act or portion of an Act, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the enactment thereof relating to such last mentioned Judge, officer, or functionary.
Supplemental Provisions.
40. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise re- Definition of quires, the word "Ordinance "includes a local and personal "Ordinance." Ordinance and a private Ordinance.
41. The provisions of this Ordinance respecting the con- Saving for struction of Ordinances passed after the commencement of past Ordi- this Ordinance shall not affect the construction of any Or- nances, dinance passed before the commencement of this Ordinance, although it is continued or amended by an Ordinance passed after such commencement.
42. The Ordinances mentioned in the Schedule to this Repeal of Ordinance are hereby repealed.
enactments. Schedule.
43. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the Commence- 1st day of January, 1898.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 8th day of November, 1897.
ment of the Ordinance.
J. G. T. BuCKLE, Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 18th
day of November, 1897.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
TABLE OF ENACTMENTS REPEALED.
Number and Year of Ordinance.
Title or Short Title and Date of Ordinance.
No. 1 of 1867
The Interpretation Ordinance, 1867.
May, 1867.]
[22nd
No. 3 of 1895
An Ordinance to declare the Effect of Ordin- auces repealing others. [26th March, 1895.]
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