2012
No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
Commencement of Ordinances.
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Definition of 'commencement.'
Time of commencement.
Exercise of statutory powers between passing and commencement of Ordinance.
Citation of Ordinances.
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(a) to this Ordinance and to all future Ordinances unless the contrary intention appear;
(b) to Ordinances now in force unless otherwise expressly herein provided.
5. Every Ordinance shall, unless otherwise provided therein, come into operation on the day of its publication in the Gazette.
[sec. 6, rep. No. 43 of 1912.]
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7. The word "commencement", when used with reference to any enactment, shall mean the day on which the enactment comes into operation.
8. Where any enactment, or any proclamation, notice, order, warrant, scheme, or letters patent, made, granted, or issued, under a power conferred by any enactment, or by any competent authority, is expressed to come into operation on a particular day, the same shall be construed as coming into operation on the expiration of the previous day.
9. Where the operation of any Ordinance is suspended and confers power to make any appointment, to make, grant, or issue any instrument, to give notice, to prescribe forms, or to do any other thing for the purpose of bringing the Ordinance into operation, that power may be exercised before the Ordinance comes into operation.
10.-(1) In all Ordinances there shall be a short title, and in all references to Ordinances in any enactment or in any legal document it shall be sufficient, but not essential, to mention the short title thereto, together with the number of the section referred to.
(2) Where, however, the short title is not used, it shall be lawful to indicate any Ordinance referred to as aforesaid by the serial number of the year in which it was passed, together with such year, and the number of the section referred to, as the same appear in the copy deposited in the Registry of the Supreme Court.
(3) In the case of Ordinances included in Sir John Carrington's "Revised Edition" of the Laws of Hongkong the numbers both of the year and the section shall be those given to them respectively
*As amended by No. 8 of 1912.
†As amended by No. 8 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912.
2012
No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
Commence- inent of Ordinances.
*
Definition of
'commence- ment."
Time of
commence-
ment.
Exercise of statutory
powers between passing and
commence- ment of Ordinance.
Citation of Ordinances.
+
(a) to this Ordinance and to all future Ordinances unless the con- trary intention appear;
(b) to Ordinances now in force unless otherwise expressly herein provided.
5. Every Ordinance shall, unless otherwise provided therein, come into operation on the day of its publication in the Gazette.
[sec. 6, rep. No. 43 of 1912.]
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7. The word commencement ", when used with reference to any enactment, shall mean the day on which the enactment comes into operation.
8. Where any enactment, or any proclamation, notice, order, warrant, scheme, or letters patent, made, granted, or issued, under a power conferred by any enactment, or by any competent authority, is expressed to come into operation on a particular day, the same shall be construed as coming into operation on the expiration of the previous day.
9. Where the operation of any Ordinance is suspended and confers power to make any appointment, to make, grant, or issue any instrument, to give notice, to prescribe forms, or to do any other thing for the purpose of bringing the Ordinance into operation, that power may be exercised before the Ordinance comes into operation.
10.-(1) In all Ordinances there shall be a short title, and in all references to Ordinances in any enactment or in any legal document it shall be sufficient, but not essential, to mention the short title thereto, together with the number of the section referred to.
(2) Where, however, the short title is not used, it shall be lawful to indicate any Ordinance referred to as aforesaid by the serial number of the year in which it was passed, together with such year, and the number of the section referred to, as the same appear in the copy deposited in the Registry of the Supreme Court.
(3) In the case of Ordinances included in Sir John Carrington's "Revised Edition" of the Laws of Hongkong the numbers both of the year and the section shall be those given to them respectively
*As amended by No. 8 of 1912.
As amended by No. 8 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912.
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