636 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1874.
No. 191.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Under instructions from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the following Imperial Act 37 and 38, Victoria, Chapter 96, for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th November, 1874.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
CHAPTER 96.
A.D. 1874. An Act for further promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing certain Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become un- necessary.
Enactments in
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[ 7th August 1874.]
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THEREAS, with a view to the revision of the Statute Law, and particularly to the preparation of the Revised Edition of the Statutes now in progress, it is expe- dient that certain enactments (mentioned in the schedule to this Act) which may regarded as spent, or have ceased to be in force otherwise than by express and specific repeal by Parliament, or have, by lapse of time and change of circumstances, become unnecessary, should be expressly and specifically repealed:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. The enactments described in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, subject schedule repealed. to the exceptions and ifications in the schedule mentioned: Saving.
Amendment
of 37 & 38 Vict. repeal of 7 Will: 4. & 1 Vict. c. 88.
Short title.
Provided, that where any enactment not comprised in the schedule has been repealed, confirmed, revived, or perpetuated by any enactment hereby repealed, such repeal, con- firmation, revivor, or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal effected by this Act: and the repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any enactment in which such enactment has been applied, incorporated, or referred to;
nor shall such repeal of any enactment affect any right to any hereditary revenues of the Crown, or affect any charges thereupon, or prevent any such enactment from being put in force for the collection of any such 1evenues, or otherwise in relation thereto;
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and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect, or consequences of any- thing already done or suffered,-or any existing status or capacity,-or any right or title already acquired or accrued, or any remedy or proceeding in respect thereof,-or any release or discharge of or from any debt, penalty, claim, or demand,-or any indem- nity, or the proof of any past act or thing;
nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law or equity, or established jurisdic- tion, form or course of pleading, practice, or procedure, or existing usage, franchise, liberty, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office, appointment, payment, allow- ance, or emolument, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised, or derived by, in, or from any enactment hereby repealed; nor shall this Act revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, duty, drawback, fee, payment, franchise, liberty, custom, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure, or other matter or thing not now existing or in force;
and this Act shall not extend to repeal any enactment so far as the same may be in force in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions out of the United Kingdom, except where otherwise expressed in the said schedule.
2. The Statute Law Revision Act, 1874, shall be read and construed as if in the entry in the schedule to that Act relating to the Act passed in the first year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter eighty-eight, intituled "An Act to amend certain Acts relating to the crime of Piracy," the words "Section Six" and "Section Seven" had been substituted for the words "Section Four" and "Section Five" respectively.
3. This Act may be cited as The Statute Law Revision Act, 1874 No. 2).
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