1964_CONVEYANCING_AND_PROPERTY_ORDINANCE — Page 12

1988 Ed.]

Conveyancing and Property

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PART III

INSTRUMENTS

Construction of words and expressions

15. Unless the contrary intention appears, in any instrument affecting land made after the commencement of this section

(a) any definition used in, or, by this section, incorporated into, that instrument shall extend to the grammatical variations and cognate expressions of the word or expression defined;

(b) words and expressions importing the masculine gender include the feminine; (Amended, L.N. 387/87)

(c) words and expressions in the singular include the plural and words and expressions in the plural include the singular; (Amended, L.N. 387/87)

(d) Chinese words and terms shall be construed according to Chinese language and custom and, if there is any conflict between Chinese words and terms and English words used in the instrument, the meaning of the English words shall prevail; and

(e) "act" includes a series of acts, an omission or a series of omissions;

“Colony” and “Hong Kong" mean the area of land and the area of Deep Bay and Mirs Bay lying within the boundaries specified in the Second Schedule to the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap.1) and the territorial waters appertaining thereto;

"contravene" includes failure to comply;

"court” means any court of Hong Kong of competent jurisdiction;

"Crown lease" means any lease granted by the Crown, any instrument whereby the term of the Crown lease may have been extended or the provisions thereof varied and any agreement for a Crown lease;

"document" means any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, characters, figures or marks or by a combination of these;

“Government” means the Government of Hong Kong;

"Kowloon" means the area specified in the Fourth Schedule to the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance;

"law" means any law for the time being in force in, having legislative effect in, extending to or applicable to Hong Kong;

"month" means calendar month;

"New Kowloon" means the area specified in the Fifth Schedule to the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance;

"New Territories" means the territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated 9 June 1898;