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800 5 OF 1886 . ] SALES OF REVERSIONS .
6 OF 1886. ] PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS .


No bona fide 2. From and after the commencement of this ordinance no
purchase of
purchase made bond fide and without fraud or unfair dealing of
be set aside any reversionary interest in property of any kind within the
valuc merely. Colony shall hereafter be opened or set aside merely on the
[ 31 V. c. 4 , s. ground of undervalue.
1. ]
Interpreta- 3. The word purchuse in this or linance shall include every
tion .
[ Ibid. s. 2. ] kind of contract, conveyance or assignment under or by which
any beneficial interest in any kind of property may be acquired.


No 6 OF 1886 .

An Ordinance to regulate the printing of Newspapers
and Books and the keeping of Printing Presses within
the Colony
[ 24th March , 1886.]
*



PART I.
Preliminary
Short title. 1. This ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Print
er's and Publishers Ordinance, 1886. *


Interpreta 3. In the construction of this ordinance, unless there is any.
tion .
(44 and 45 V. thing in the subject or the context repugnant thereto, the
c . 60, s. 1. ] several words and plirases hereinafter mentioned shall have and
include the meanings following, that is to say :--
The word Registrar shall mean the Registrar of the Su
preme Court of Hongkong or either of the Deputy
Registrars thereof for the time being .
The word newspaper shall mean any paper containing
public news, intelligence, or occurrences, orany remarks
or observations thereon, printed for sale and published
in the Colony periodically or in parts or numbers at
intervals not exceeding twenty -six days between the
publication of any two such papers, parts, or numbers,
also any paper, printed in order to be distributed and
made public weekly or oftener or at intervals not ex
ceeding twenty -sixdays, containing only or principally
advertisements .