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"Definition" means the interpretation to be given to words or expressions used in the Ordinance or part of an Ordinance to which such inter- pretations are declared to be applicable; and the words or expressions are to have in such Ordinance or part of an Ordinance, and in any rules, regulations, orders, or other document made thereunder, the meanings assigned to them unless inconsistent with the context.
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Month means calendar month, unless it appears from the context that lunar month, or Chinese
mioon is intended.
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"Year" means a year according to the Georgian Calendar, unless it appears from the context that a Chinese year is intended.
Person", and words applied to any person or individual, shall apply to and include, subject only to the provisions of section 35, bodies corporate, joint tenants and tenants in common. "Statutory Declaration " means a declaration made by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, or of the Statutory Declaration Ordinance, 1893.
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Enactment
means auy provision made by com- perent authority, baving the force of law, and any part of such provision, and includes rules and regulations made in virtue of powers con- ferred by any Ordinance or statute; and Provided" or "Prescribed ", when used in re- ference to any enactment, means provided or prescribed by such enactment.
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Auy Ordinance " or Auf enactment means and includes any Ordinance or any enactment, as the case may be, which is in force in the Colony at the time when the enactment in which the expression occurs is enforced or applied.
Offence means any crime, misdemeanor, contra- vention, or other breach of the law for which a penalty is provided.
"Committed for trial" means when used in relation to any person, committed to prison with the view to his being tried before a Judge and Jury, or otherwise as the law directs; and includes a person who is admitted to bail upon recogniz- unces to appear and take his trial before a Judge and Jury, or otherwise.
*Statute" or “Act” means an Act of the Imperial
Parliament.
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"Treaty means and includes a treaty, convention or agreement made with a foreigu State, toge- ther with protocols or declarations attached thereto, or independent thereof but referring thereto.
" WHI " menus and includes a will, testament, colicil, and all other testamentary papers what-
soever.
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* Medical Practitioner or any words importing a person recognized at law as a practitiouer in medicine or surgery or as any kind of mem- ber of the medical profession, means a medical practitioner duly registered under Ordinance No. 1 of 1884.
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"Solicitor" means a legal practitioner admitted to practice as a solicitor before the Supreme Court under Ordinance No. 1 of 1871
"Years of age ", or words of a like meaning, when used in reference to the age of any person, mean years according to English reckoning, unless Chinese reckoning is expressly indicated. Bank of England" means the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England.
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