WEI-HAI-WEI ORDER IN COUNCIL.
"Offence" includes any crime and any act or omission punishable criminally in a summary way or otherwise.
"Ship" includes any vessel used in navigation, however propelled, with her tackle, furniture, and apparel and any boat or other craft.
Expressions used in any ordinances, rules, regulations, or orders made under this Order shall, unless a contrary intention appears, have the same respective meanings as in this Order.
Words importing the plural or the singular may be construed as referring to one person or thing, or to more, and words importing the masculine as referring to the feminine (as the case may require).
PART II.—ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGISLATIVE.
3.—(1) There shall be a Commissioner (hereinafter referred to as the Commissioner) in and over the said territories, and the person who shall fill the said office of Commissioner shall be from time to time appointed by Commission under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet.
(2) In the event of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence from the said territories of the Commissioner for the time being, all and every the powers and authorities by this Order granted to him shall, until His Majesty's further pleasure is signified therein, be vested in such person as may be appointed to administer the same by any instrument under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet, or, if there be not in the said territories any person so appointed, then in the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's forces within the said territories.
(3) The Commissioner shall administer the Government of the said territories in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, and shall do and execute in due manner all things that shall belong to the trust thereby reposed in him, according to the several powers and authorities granted or appointed to him by virtue of this Order and of his Commission, and according to such instructions as may from time to time be given to him under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet, or by Order of His Majesty in Council, or by His Majesty through a Secretary of State, and according to such laws as are or shall hereafter be in force in the said territories.
4. The Commissioner shall have an official seal, bearing the style of his office, and such device as a Secretary of State from time to time approves, and such seal shall be deemed the public seal of the said territories, and may be kept and used by the Commissioner for the sealing of all things whatsoever that shall pass the public seal. And, until a public seal shall be provided, the seal of the Commissioner may be used as the public seal.
WEI-HAI-WEI ORDER IN COUNCIL.
"Offence" includes any crime and any act or omission punishable
criminally in a summary way or otherwise.
"Ship" includes any vessel used in navigation, however pro- pelled, with her tackle, furniture, and apparel and any boat
or other craft.
Expressions used in any ordinances, rules, regulations, or orders made under this Order shall, unless a contrary intention appears, have the same respective meanings as in this Order.
Words importing the plural or the singular may be construed as referring to one person or thing, or to more, and words importing the masculine as referring to the feminine (as the case may require).
PART II.-ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGISLATIVE,
missioner.
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3.-(1) There shall be a Commissioner (hereinafter referred to as the Appointment Commissioner) in and over the said territories, and the person who shall of Com- fill the said office of Commissioner shall be from time to time appointed by Commission under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet.
(2) In the event of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence from the said territories of the Commissioner for the time being, all and every the powers and authorities by this Order granted to him shall, until His Majesty's further pleasure is signified therein, be vested in such person as may be appointed to administer the same by any instrument under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet, or, if there be not in the said territories any person so appointed, then in the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of His Majesty's forces within the said territories.
(3) The Commissioner shall administer the Government of the said territories in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, and shall do and execute in due manner all things that shall belong to the trust thereby reposed in him, according to the several powers and authorities granted or appointed to him by virtue of this Order and of his Commis- sion, and according to such instructions as may from time to time be given to him under His Majesty's Sign Manual and Signet, or by Order of His Majesty in Council, or by His Majesty through a Secretary of State, and according to such laws as are or shall hereafter be in force in the said territories.
4. The Commissioner shall have an official seal, bearing the style of Sea!. his office, and such device as a Secretary of State from time to time approves, and such seal shall be deemed the public seal of the said ter- ritories, and may be kept and used by the Commissioner for the sealing of all things whatsoever that shall pass the public seal. And, until a public seal shall be provided, the seal of the Commissioner may be used as the public seal.
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