INTERPRETATION ORDINANCE, 1911

INTERPRETATION ORDINANCE, 1911

No. 31 of 1911.

An Ordinance to amend and codify the law as to the
interpretation of terms and as to common forms used
in Ordinances.

[28th August, 1913.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation
Ordinance, 1911.

2. This Ordinance shall apply to the Colony of Hong Kong
and its dependencies, including the New Territories,. unless it is.
otherwise expressed.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





PART I.

Of Ordinances generally.

3. All Ordinances now in force and all future Ordinances
shall extend to the New Territories unless it otherwise appears
from express provision or by necessary implication.

4. The provisions of this Ordinance shall, unless the contrary
intention appears or unless iDtherwise expressly provided, apply-

(1) to this Ordinance and to all future Ordinances;
(2) to Ordinances now in force; and

(3) generally, to all enactments.

5. Every Ordinance shall, unless otherwise provided therein,
come into operation on the day of its publication in the Gazette.

[s. 6, rep. No. 43 of 1912.]

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 an Ordinance confers power to make any appoint-
ment, to make, grant or issue any instrument, that is to say,
any Order in Council, order, warrant, scheme, letters patent,
rules, regulations or by-laws, to give notices, to prescribe forms,
or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Ordinance, that
power may, unless the contrary, intention appears, be exercised
at any time after the passing of the Ordinance, subject to this
restriction, that any instrument made under the power, shall not,

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939,





unless the contrary intention appears in the Ordinance or the
contrary is necessary for bringing the Ordinance into operation,
come into operation until 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, an d the number of the section referred to, as the
same appear in the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition),
prepared under authority of the Ordinances and Regulations
of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, 1936.

(3) Where the reference to any Ordinance is to any line
in any section thereof, it shall be held to refer, in the case of
Ordinances included in the Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937
edition), prepared under authority of the Ordinances and
Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, 1936, to
the line of such section as printed therein, and in the case of
Ordinances passed after the year 1937 to the line of such section
as printed in the copy deposited in the Registry of the Supreme
Court.

PART II.

Of Tepeals.

11-(1) Where any Ordinance repeals wholly or in part any
former enactment and substitutes other provisions therefor, the
repealed enactment shall remain in force until the substituted
provisions come into operation.
(2) Where any Ordinance, or any part of an Ordinance, is
repealed, all proclamations, orders, notices, rules, regulations
and, formissued, made or prescribed in virtue thereof shall
remain in force, so far as they are not inconsistent with the
provisions of the repealing Ordinance and unless the contrary
intention appears, until they have been repealed or replaced by

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





proclamations, orders, notices, rules, regulations or forms, as
the case may be, issued, made or prescribed under the provisions
of the said repealing Ordinance.

12. The repeal of any enactment shall not, unless the contrary
intention appears-

(a) revive anyt hing not in force or existing at the time at
which the repeal takes effect; or

(b) affect the previous operation. of any enactment so
repealed, or anything duly done or stiffered under any enactment
so repealed; or

(c) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired,
accrued or incurred under any enactment so repealed ; or

(d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred
in respect of any offence committed against any enactment so
repealed;- or

(e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in
respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty,
forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation,
legal proceeding or rernedy may be instituted, continued or
enforced, and any such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may
be imposed, as if the repealing Ordinance had not been passed:

Provided that, where the penalty, forfeiture or punishment
imposed by the repealing Ordinance is heavier than that imposed
by the repealed enactment, the provisions by which the lighter
penalty, forfeiture or punishment is imposed shall, unless such
repealing enactment otherwise provides, be applied if the court
decides to inflict any punishment.

13. When any Ordinance which repeals in whole or in part
any earlier Ordinance is itself repealed, such last repeal shall
not be construed as reviving the enactment previously repealed,
unless such revival be expressly enacted.

14. Where any Ordinance repeals and re-enacts, with or
without modification, any provisions of a former Ordinance,
references in any other Ordinance to the provisions so repealed
shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as
reference to the provisions so re-enacted.





15, Where any statute of the Imperial Parliament repeals
and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of
a former statute of the Imperial Parliament, references in any
Ordinance to the provisions so repealed shall, unless there is
any provision in the repealing statute from which the contrary
intention appears, be constiued as references to the provisions so
re-enacted.

16. Any Ordinance which amends, repeals or adds to the
provisions of a former Ordinance shall, unless the contrary
intention appears, be read 'and construed as forming part of the
Ordinance so affected.

17. Whenever any enactment.is disallowed by. His Majesty
such disallowance shall be notified by the Governor in the
Gazette; and: from and after the date of such notification the
enactment, and all proclam4tions, orders, notices, rules, regula-
tions or other like documents made thereunder, shall cease to
have effect:

Provided always that the provisions ofsection 12 shall apply
to such disallowance as if the words. ' disallowance ' and
' dis ' allowed ' were read therein in lieu of the words ' repeal '
and ' repeated ' respectively; with this exception only, that any
enactment repealed modified or amended by any enactment
disallowed, together with all proclamafions, orders, notices, rules,
egulations or other like documents made under such previous
enactment, shall revive and continue in force in their original
form as from the date of the said notification.

The expression 'disallowance' shall include the signification
of His Majesty's pleasure not to allow any Ordinance.

PART III

General.

18. Every Ordinance shall be a public Ordinance, and shall
be judicially noticed as such, unless the contrary is expressly
provided by the Ordinance.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





19. Every section of an Ordinance shall have effect as a
substantive enactment without introductory words.

20. Every Schedule to or Table in any Ordinance shall,
together with any notes thereto, be construed and have effect as
part of the Ordinance.

21. Where an Ordinance is divided into Parts, Chapters,
titles or other sub-divisions, the fact and particulars of such
division shall, with or without express mention thereof in such
Ordinance, be taken notice of in all courts and for all other
purposes whatsoever.

22. References to the Sovereign in any Ordinance, or to the
Crown, shall, unless the contrary intention appears or the context
otherwise requires, be construed as references to the Sovereign
for the time being, and it shall not be necessary to refer to or
include the Sovereign's Heirs and Successors.

23. No Ordinance shall be binding on the Crown, or shall
in any manner affect the rights of the Crown, unless it is so
provided in express terms.

This Ordinance shall be binding on the Crown.

24. Where any Ordinance confers a power or imposes a
duty, then unless the contrary intention appears, the power may
be exercised and the duty shall be performed from time to time
as occasion requires.

25.-(1) Where reference is made to any person by the term
designating his office, such term shall include the person for the
time being executing the duties of such office, as well as such
other person as may be appointed to perform any portion of such
duties.

(2) Where any Ordinance confers a power or privilege or
imposes a duty on the holder of any office as such, then unless
the contrary intention appears, the power or privilege may be
exercised and the duty shall or may be performed, as the case

As amended by No. 1 of 1927 [1.4.27].





may be, by the holder of the office for the time being, or by any
person appointed to act in, or perform the duties of, the said
office for the time being.

(3) Any civil or criminal proceedings taken by or against
any person in virtue of his office shall not be discontinued or
abated by his death, resignation or absence or removal from
office, but may be carri.ed on by or against, as the case may be,
the person appointed to perform the duties of the office.

(4) Where any Ordinance gives power to make an appoint-
ment to any office, it shall not be necessary in any such appoint-
ment to name any particular individual and the appointment
may be of the holder of any other office in the name of that
office, in which case the person who is for the time being
performing the duties of the office last above referred to shall
be deemed to have been appointed to the office first above referred
to.

26.-(1) Where reference is made in any enactment to any
series of sections of, or other divisions of, any enactment, or to
any part of any enactment, the reference shall be held to be
inclusive of the sections or divisions or words mentioned in the
reference.

(2) When any particular number of days is prescribed for
the doing of any act or for any other purpose, the same shall,
unless the contrary intention appears, be reckoned exclusive of
the first and inclusive of the last day.

26A.-(i) Where in any Ordinance there is a reference to
a section, Part, Chapter or Schedule by number or letter only
and not in conjunction with the title or serial number of an
Ordinance, such reference shall be construed as a reference to
the section, Part, Chapter or Schedule of that number or letter
contained in the Ordinance in which such reference occurs.

(2) Where in any section of any Ordinance there is a
reference to a sub-section or paragraph by number or letter only
and not in conjunction with the number of any section of that
or of any other Ordinance, such reference shall be construed as
a reference to the sub-section or paragraph of that number or
letter contained in the section in which such reference occurs.

(3) The provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) shall apply





inutatis mutandis in the case of references to rules, regulations,
appendices, by-laws, forms and other divisions or portions of
Ordinances, where such references are made by number or letter
only and not in conjunction with the titles or numbers of
Ordinances or parts of Ordinances.

27. In the measurement of any distance for the purposes of
any Ordinance, that distance shall, unless the contrary intention
appears, be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane.

28.-(1) Whenever any expression of time occurs in any
enactment or in any legal document, the time referred to shall,
unless the contrary intention appears, be held to be standard
time.

The expression ' standard time means'. standard time as
used in the Colony: that is to say, the mean time of the 12th
meridian east of Greenwich, which is exactly eight hours in
advance of Greenwich mean time.

(2) 'The expression ' a.m.' indicates the period between
midnight and noon on the day succeeding; and the expression
'p.m.' indicates the period between noon and the midnight
following; and where in any enactment two such expressions
occur conjunctively in relation to any specified hours, or in
conjunction with the words ' sunset ' or ' sunrise ', they shall
be construed to relate to consecutive periods of time.

29. Where any Ordinance authorizes or requires any docu-
ment to be served by post, whether the expression ' serve ' or
give ' or ' send ' or any other expression is used, then unless
the contrary intention appears, the service shall be deemed to be
effected by properly addressing, prep ' aying and posting a letter
containing the document, and unless the contrary is proved, to
have been effected at the time at which the letter would be
delivered in the ordinary course of post.

30. In any e nactment expressions referring to writing or
printing shall include, unless the contrary intention appears,
writing, printing, lithography, photography, typewriting and
every other mode of representing words or figures in a visible
form ; but in the case of a book ' printing ' shall not include
writing or typewriting.

Nothing in this section shall be taken to apply to signatures.





31. In all Ordinances, unless the contrary intention appears,
the words ' oath ' and ' affidavit ' include, in the cases of
persons allowed or required by law to affirm instead of swearing,
'affirmation'; and 'swear', in the like cases, includes
affirm '.

32. Where in any enactment Chinese words or terms are
used, or where English words are used, followed in brackets
or otherwise by Chinese words or terms, whether in Chinese
characters or not, the Chinese words or terms shall be held to
be included in the enactment, and the meaning and construction
thereof shall be in accordance. with Chinese language and
custom.

33. Where the words ' orother and ' otherwise'
are used, they shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be
construed disjunctively and not as implying similarity, unless
the word 'similar' or some other word of like meaning is
added.

Nothing in this section shall be taken to affect section 5 of
the Penalties Amendment Ordinance, 1911.

34. Where the offence with which any person is charged is-

(i) the doing of any act; or

(2) the omission to do any act; or

(3) the possession or custody of any matter or thing,

without lawful or reasonable authority or purpose or excuse, the
proof of such authority or purpose or excuse shall lie on the
person charged with the offence.

35. In the construction of every Ordinance relating to an
offence punishable on indictment or on summary conviction, the
expression 'person.' shall, unless the contrary intention appears,
include a body corporate.

36. In all enactments, unless the contrary intention appears,
words importing the,rnasculine gender shall include females, and
words in the singular shall include the plural and words in the
plural shall include the singular.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





37. Where any notice, order or other document,is required
by any enactment to be published in the Gazette, or where any
document referred to in section 26 (3) of the Evidence Ordin-
ance, 1889, appears.in the Gazette, a copy-of the Gazette in which
it is so published or appears shall be primfi facie evidence of the
facts stated in such notice, order or document.

38.-(1) Where under any enactment any person is required
to pay any charge or fee for any act or thing done, or document
issued, or signature or seal aflixed to any document, by any
public oflicer or department, or where any person is adjudged
by any court, or other authority duly authorized by law, to pay
or forfeit any sum of money, such charge or fee and such sum
of money shall be paid into the Treasury, unless the contrary
is otherwise provided; and if any such charge or fee, or if any
commission on money received or taken possession of, realized
or otherwise dealt with, is required to be paid to any public
officer or department, such officer or department receiving the
same shall pay it into or account for the same in due course to
the Treasury.

(2) Where under any enactment any thing or any animal
is adjudged by any court, or other authority duly authorized
by law, to be forfeited, it shall, unless the contrary is otherwise
provided. or unless it is expressed by law to be forfeited,to any
person, be forfeited to the Crown, and the net proceeds thereof,
if it is ordered by competent authority to be sold, shall be paid
into the Treasury, unless the contrary is otherwise provided.

(3) Nothing in this section shall affect any provision in any
existing or future enactment whereby any shares of fines or
forfeitures, or of proceeds of fodeitures, are expressed to be
recoverable by any person or may be granted by any authority
to any person or officer.

(4) The Governor may in any special case, not provided for
by Ordinance, award a share, not exceeding three-fourths, of
any fine or forfeiture adjudged by any court, or of any proceeds
of any forfeiture, as a reward, bounty or gratuity, to any member
of the police force for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed or-
injury sustained in the execution of his duty, or to such private
persons or informers as may be deserving of reward for assisting
in the detection of crime or the apprehension of offenders.

As amended by No. 1 of 1927 [1.4.27].





PART IV.

Definitions.

39. In all enactments the following words shall have the
meanings hereby assigned to them, unless otherwise provided or
unless, the context otherwise requires.

A-Official definitions.

(i) ' Governor' means the Governor of Hong Kong and
includes the officer for the time being administering the Govern-
ment of Hong Kong and also includes the Governor's Deputy
exercising any power which he is duly appointed to exercise
under the Royal Letters Patent constituting the office of
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong
and its Dependencies;

and where the Governor of Hong Kong is not intended-

' Governor ' meansi as respects Australia, Canada, India
and the Union of South Africa, the Governor deneral and
includes any person who for the time being has the power of
the Governor General;

and as respects any other British possession or territory under
the protection of His Majesty, means the Governor or Adminis-
trator of that possession and includes the officer for the time
being administering the Government of that possession or
territory.

(2) ' Governor in Council' or ' Governor in Executive
Council ' or ' Governor with the advice of the Executive
Council ' means the Governor acting with the advice of the
Executive Council, but not necessarily in such Council
assembled.

(3) ' Officer' administering the Government ' means the
officer who succeeds to or is appointed to the administration of
the Government of the Colony.

(4) ' Secretary of State ' means His Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Colonies unless another Secretary of
State is indicated.

As amended by No. 1 of 1927 [1.4.27], No. 23 of 1930 [5.12.30],
No. 41 of 1935 [4.10.35], No. 26 of 1937 [24.12.37] and Law Rev. Ord.,
1939.





(5) ' Crown Agents ' means the Person or persons for the
time being acting as Crown Agents for the Colonies in England,
or anyone of them.

(6) ' The Admiralty ' means the Lord High Admiral of
the United Kingdom for the time being or the Commissioners
for the time being executing the office of Lord High Admiral of
the United Kingdom.

(7) ' Privy Council ' means the Lords and others for the
time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council ;
and ' Order in Council ' means an Order made by His Majesty
in his Privy Council.

(8) ' Board of Trade ' means the Committee for the time
being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of
matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.

(9) ' Imperial Parliament ' and ' Parliament mean the
Parliament of the United Kingdom.

(10) ' Consul ' and ' consular officer ' include consul-
general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent and any person for
the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul-
general, consul or vice-consul.

(11) Legislative Council ' and ' legislature mean the
Legislative Council of the Government of Hong Kong; and
when used with reference to a British possession other than
Hong Kong, mean the authority, other than the Imperial Parlia-
ment or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make
laws for such British possession.

(12) ' The Treasury and ' Treasurer mean the Colonial
Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respectively, and ' Trea-
surer ' includes the Financial Secretary and the Accountant-
General.

(13) ' justice of the peace ' means a person appointed by
the Governor to act as justice of the peace for the Colony.

(14) ' Clerk of Councils' means the person appointed
by the Governor to be Clerk to the Executive Council and the
Legislative Council and includes any person appointed by the
Governor to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.





B.-Colonial definitions.

The Colony this Colony or Hong Kong
means the whole area of land and water lying between the
following boundaries-

On the south-The parallel of latitude 22' 9' north between
the points whdre it is intersected by the meridians of longitude
113' 52' east and 114' 30' east of Greenwich;

On the north-A line drawn frorn the point where the
meridian of longitude 113' 52' east of Greenwich intersects the
parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the
shore of Deep Bay to the said south-west point of the shore of
Deep Bay; thence along the high water mark upon the shore
of Deep Bay to the estuary of the Sham Chun River; thence by
a line drawn as described in the agreement delimiting the
northern frontier of the New Territories signed by James
Haldane Stewart Lockhart and Wong Tsun-shin at Hong Kong
on the igth day of March, 1899, and following the high water
mark in Mirs Bay to the point where the meridian of longitude
114' 30' east of Greenwich intersects the mainland

On the east-The meridian of longitude 114' 30' east of
Greenwich between the points where it intersects the mainland
and the parallel of latitude 22' 9' north;

On the west-The meridian of longitude 113' 52' east of
Greenwich between the points where it intersects the parallel of
latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of
Deep Bay and the parallel of latitude 22' 9' north: Provided
that, between the points on the north and south coast of Lantao
where the meridian of longitude 113' 52' east of Greenwich
intersects the island, the boundary follows the western coast-line
of Lantao and includes the waters appertaining thereto.

(2) ' Kowloon ' means that portion of the peninsula of
Kaulung which was ceded to Great Britain by the Emperor of
China on the 24th day of October, i86o.

(3) ' The New Territories ' means the additional territories
leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the
Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898.

(4) ' New Kowloon ' means that portion of the New
Territories which is delineated in red and shown upon a plan





marked 'New Kowloon ' dated, the 8th day of December, 1937,
signed by the Director of Public Works, countersigned by the
Governor and deposited in the Land Office,

(5) ' City of Victoria ' . or ' Victoria means the area
within the fiAlowing boundaries:

On the north The harbour;

On the west-A line running north and south drawn through
the north-west angle of Inland Lot No. 1299 and extending
southwards a distance of 850 feet from the aforesaid angle ;

On the south-A line running east from the southern
extremity of the western boundary until it meets a contour of
the hill-side 700 feet above principal datum, that is to say, a
level 17833 feet below the bench-mark known as ' Rifleman's
Bolt ', or the highest point of a copper bolt set hogizontally in
the will of a storehouse on Marine Lot No. 26, in and near
the main entrance to the Royal Naval Dockyard, and thence
following the said contour until it meets the eastern boundary;

On the east-A line following the western boundary of the
Queen's Recreation Ground until it meets the old Shaukiwan
Road, thence to the south-east angle of Inland Lot No. 1018.
thence along the southern boundary of Inland Lot No. 1018,
prodticed until it meets the road on the east side of Wongnei-
chong Valley, and thence to the south-east angle of Inland Lot
No. 1364, produced until it meets the southern boundary.

(6) ' The waters of the Colony ' or ' Colonial. waters
means all waters whether navigable or not, included within the
Colony.

(7) 'Harbour' means the harbour of Victoria and includes
the waters of the Colony within the following boundaries: '

On the east--A straight line drawn trom the westernmost
extremity of Siu Chau Wan Point to the westernmost extremity
of A Kung Ngam Point (sometimes known as Kung Am);
On the west-A straight line drawn from the, westernmost
point of the Island of Hong Kong to the westernmost point of
Green Island, thence a straight line drawn from the westernmost
point of Green. Island to the westernniost point of Stonecutters
Island, and thence a straight line drawn true north from the
westernmost extremity of Stonecutters Island to the mainland.

(8) ' Public seal ' means the public seal of the Colony.





(9) ' Public' office ' and ' public department ' include
every office or department invested with or performing duties
of a public nature, whether under the immediate control of the
Governor or not.

(10) 'Public officer ' or Public servant ' means any
person holding any appointment or discharging the duties,
whether permanently or temporarily, of any office the emolu-
ments of which. are wholly or in part directly derived from the
revenues of the Colony, and includes members of the Executive
and Legislative Councils, members of the Urban Council,
justices of the peace, revenue officers, members of the police
force and of the district watch force, and also commissioners
and persons acting under the Commissioners Powers Ordinance,
1886, and persons acting under the Po Leung Kuk Incorporation,
Ordinance, 1893.

(11) Officer of police or ' police officer ' includes
members of the police force of all ranks; and where any duty
or power is imposed or conferred in any Ordinance on any
officer of police, police officer, police constable or constable, it
may be performed or exercised by any member of the police
force ;

and where any duty or power is imposed or conferred on any
European officer of police or constable, it may be performed or
exercised by any European member of the police force;

and where any duty or power is imposed on any officer of police
other than a constable it may be performed or exercised by any
member of the police force of higher rank;

and where any person is referred to as not being a constable
of police ' it shall be construed,to mean any person not being
a member of the police force ' ;

and the expression ' person employed in the police force ', or
other words of like meaning, shall include all the employees
referred to in section 3 (2) of the Police Force Ordinance, 1932,
as well as all members of the police force.

(12) ' Health -Officer ' includes the Director of Medical
Services, any medical officer appointed as a Health Officer by the
Governor, any Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and any officer for
the time being performing the duties of a Health officer under
any Ordinance.





(13) ' Government Analyst', includes for the purposes of
all Ordinances any analyst appointed,by the Governor under the
Adulterated Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1935.

(14) ' Prison ' includes any place or building or portion
of a building set apart or hereafter to be set apart for the purpose
of a prison under any Ordinance relating to prisons.

(15) ' Superintendent of. Prisons' means the person ap-
pointed to that office under the Prisons Ordinance, 1932. This
definition shall apply to all warrants of committal or other
documents.

C.-Geographical definitions.

(1) ' United Kingdom ' means the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

(2) ' British Islands ' means the United Kingdom, the
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

(3) ' British possession' means any part of His Majesty's
dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom ; and where parts
of such dominions are under both a central and a local legis-
lature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the
purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one British
possession.

(4) British colony ' or ' colony ' means, Where the
Colony of Hong Kong is not intended, any part of His Majesty's
dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom and of British
India; and where parts of such dominions are under both a
central and a local legislature, all parts under the central legis-
lature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be
one colony.

' British India ' means all territories and, places within
His Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed,
by His Majesty through the Governor-General of India, or
through any Governor or other officer subordinate to the
G6vernor-General of India.
(6) ' India ' means British India together with any terri-
tories of any native prince or chief under the suzerainty of His





Majesty exercised through the Governor-General of India or
other officer subordinate to the Governor-General of India.

D-Judicial definitions.

(i) High Court ' means, when used, with reference to
England or Northern Ireland, His. Majesty's High Court of
justice in England or Northern Ireland, as the case rnay be.

(2) Court of assize or assizes means, as respects
England, Wales and - Northern Ireland, a court of assize, a court
of over and terminer and a court of gaol delivery, or any of
them, and as respects England and Wales, includes the Central
Criminal Court; and as respects Hong Kong, means the
Supreme Court, either one judge or the Full Court, sitting in
its criminal jprisdiction ; and unless it is specially provided that
any offence is to be tried summarily before a magistrate or other-
wise, all offences shall be triable before the Supreme Court sitting
in its criminal jurisdiction.

(3) ' Supreme Court ' means the Supreme Court of Hong
Kong.

(4) ' Probate court ' means, as respects Hong Kong, the
Supreme Court sitting in its probate jurisdiction.

(5) ' Bankruptcy court ' means, as respects Hong Kong,
the Supreme Court sitting in its bankruptcy jurisdiction.

(6) ' Colonial Court of Admiralty ' means, as respects
Hong Kong, the Supreme Court sitting in its Admiralty
jurisdiction.

(7) ' Court ' means the Supreme Court as well as any other
court holden in the Colony; but in the absence of any words
indicating a contrary intention the jurisdiction created by or
referred to in any enactment shall be exercised only by the
Supreme Court.

(8) ' Magistrate ' means a magistrate appointed under the
Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, but does not include a marine
magistrate in cases not coming within section 6 of the said
Ordinance, unless such magistrate is expressly indicated; and
unless the contrary intention appears, the expression ' triable
before a magistrate ' or ' tried summarily ', or any other
expression having the like intent, means that an offence may be





tried as provided by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932 ; and the
expression summary conviction ' or ' conviction before a
magistrate and any other expression having the like, intent,
means that the offence to which it relates was triable, and has
been tried, and the offender convicted, as provided by the said
Ordinance; and in both cases the procedure respecting the
imposition of fines and forfeitures, imprisonment for, default, and,
all other provisions respecting the jurisdiction of the magistrate,
and the procedure of, such trial, shall be held to be included
and where by any Ordinance an offence is made punishable by
summary conviction, the magistrate or two, magistrates, as the
case may require, shall be deemed thereby to be invested with
jurisdiction to try any person accused of such offence; and
references in any enactment to two magistrates shall mean two
magistrates sitting together and exercising jurisdiction as provided
by section 87 of the Magistrates, Ordinance, 1932.

(9) ' Judge ' means any judge of the Supreme Court; and
where any civil Jurisdiction is required. to be exercised by a
judge, such jurisdiction, if it is not otherwise expressed, shall
be exercisable by a judge sitting in chambers.

(io) ' Rules'of court ' means, when used in relation to any
court, rules made by the authority having for the time being
power to make rules and orders regulating the practice and
procedure of such court, together with the forms necessary
thereto. The power of the said authority to make rules of court
as above defined shall include a power to make rules of court,
together with the forms necessary thereto, for the purpose of any
future enactment directing or authorizing anything to be done
by rules of court.

E-General definitions.

(i) ' Any Ordinance ' or ' any enactment 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.

(2) ' Bank of England.' means the Governor and Company
of the Bank of England.





(3) ' Bank of Ireland ' means the Governor and Company
of the Bank of Ireland.

(4) 'Committed for trial ' means, when used in relation
to any person, Committed to prison with the view of his being
tried before a judge and jqrv, or otherwise as the law directs;
and includes a person who is admitted to bail upon recogni-
zances to appear and take his trial before a judge and jury, or
otherwise.

5) ' Definition ' means the interpretation to be given to
words or expressions used in the Ordinance or part of an Ordin-
ance to which such interpretations 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 documents made thereunder, the meanings assigned to
them unless inconsistent with the context.

(6) ' Enactment ' means any provision made by competent
authority having the force of law, and any part of such pro-
vision, and includes rules and regulations made in virtue of
powers conferred by any Ordinance or statute.

(7) ' Gazette ' means the Hong Kong Government Gazette.

(8) ' In this Ordinance'; or ' In this Part ' or ' In this
section ' or any other similar expression means, when used at
the commencement of an interpretation section, that the word's
or expressions which follow shall have, in the Ordinance or part
or section or in any rules, regulations, orders or other documents
made thereunder, the meanings assigned to theni unless it is
otherwise provided or unless any such meaning is repugnant to
or inconsistent with the context, and the definitions of the said
words and expressions shall apply mutatis mutandis to any
grammatical variations of the terms defined and to any expres-
sions cognate therewith.

(9) ' Medical practitioner ', or any words importing a
person recognized at law as a practitioner in medicine or surgery
or as a member of any branch of the medical profession, means
a medical practitioner duly registered or deemed to be a medical
practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935.
unless a Chinese medical practitioner is expressly referred to.





(10) ---Month ' means calendar month unless it appears
from the context that lunar month or Chinese ' moon is
intended.

(11) ' Offence ' means any crime, misdemeanor, contraven-
tion or other breach of the law for which a penalty is provided.

(12) ' Person ', and words applied to any person or in-
dividual, shall apply to and include, subject only to the provisions
of section 35, bodies corporate, joint tenants and tenants in
common.

(13) Per cent.', when used in relation to a rate of interest
payable in any circumstances, means the rate of interest specified
payable in respect of a year, unless it is expressly provided that
it is payable in respect of any other period.

(14) ' Proclaination ' means, as respects Hong Kong, a
proclamation of the Governor or of the Governor in Council.

(15) 'Provided or ' prescribed ', when used in reference
to any enactment, means provided or prescribed by such enact-
ment, or as provided or prescribed by the provisions of such
enactment.

(16) ' Solicitor ' means a legal practitioner admitted to
practice as a solicitor before the Supreme Court under the Legal
Practitioners Ordinance, 1871.

(17) ' Statute ' or ' Act means an Act of the Imperial
Parliament.

(18) ' Statutory declaration ' rneans a declaration made by
virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, or of the Statutory
Declarations Ordinance, 1893.

19) ' Treaty ' means a treaty, convention or agreement
niade with a foreign state, together with protocols or declarations
attached thereto, or independent thereof but referring thereto.

(20) ' Will ' includes any testamentary instrument.

(21) ' Year ' means a year according to the Gregorian
calendar unless it appears from the context that a Chinese year
is intended.





(22) 'Years of age' or words of a like meaning, when
used in reference to the age of any person, means years accord-
ing to English reckoning unless Chinese reckoning is expressly
indicated.

PART V.

Of regulations, forms and other matters.

40.-(1) Where any Ordinance confers on any person a
discretionary power to make regulations, to, issue any order or
to do any act, the power shall, unless the contrary intention
appears, be construed as including the power, exercisable in like
manner and subject to the same conditions, if any, to amend,
vary, rescind revoke or suspend the regulations made or order
issued, or an part thereof, and to make or issue new regulations
or a new order, or to abstain from doing the act.

(2) ' Regulations ', both in this section and generally in
this Ordinance, as well as in all other enactments, means regula-
tions, rules and by-laws not inconsistent with the provisions of
the Ordinance under which theyare made, and includes rules of
court.

(3) All regulations shall, unless otherwise provided, come
into operation on the day of their publication in the Gazette
and shall have the same force and effect, shall be as binding
and shall be construed, for all purposes as if they had been
contained in the Ordinance empowering them to be made; and
any reference to the Ordinance in any enactment or in any legal
document shall be construed as including the regulations in such
reference.

(4) All regulations shall be laid on the table of the Legis-
lative Council at the first meeting thereof after the publication
in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a
resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative
Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table
of the said Council resolving that any such regulations shall
be rescinded or amended in any manner, whatsoever, the said-
regulations shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder,

As amended by No. 1 of 1927 [1.4.27] and No. 26 of 1937 [24.12.37].





be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as
from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of
such resolution.

41.-(1) Unless it is otherwise enacted, whenever in any
Ordinance it is provided that regulations shall be-

(a) made; or

(b) made subject to the approval or confirmation (or where
other words of like meaning ate used) of the Governor in
Council,

the following rules shall be observed-

(i) the regulations shall be submitted for the approval of the
Governor in Council; and

(ii) the Governor in Council shall have power to amend or
to disapprove the whole or any part of the regulations and may,
if he disapproves them either in whole or in part, require further
or other regulations to be submitted for approval.

The words ' to amend ' shall include the power to add to,
alter or otherwise vary.

(2) This section shall apply to regulations which are by any
Ordinance made subject to the approval or confirmation (or where
other words of like meaning are used) of the Governor or of the
Legislative Council.

[S.42, incorporated in s 11(2) by Law Revision
Ordinance, 1939.]

PART VI.

Of proclamations and Orders of the Governor.

43. Proclamations and, notifications of the Governor shall
come into operation on the date of their publication in the
Gazette.

44. Where power is given to the Governor to issue a pro-
clamation or notification, it shall, include the power of amending,
revoking or suspending the said proclamation or notification,





and of declaring the date of its coming into operation and also
of substituting another therefor:

Provided always that where any Qrdinance is to come into
operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation, the power to issue
such proclamation shall not include (except in the case of and
for the purpose of correcting any mistake therein) the power of
amending, revoking or suspending the same.

45. Where power is given to the Governor to make any order
or give any direction, it shall be sufficient, unless it is otherwise
expressed, for such order or direction to be signified under the
hand of the Colonial Secretary or of the Principal Assistant
Colonial Secretary.

This section shall not apply to the issue of any warrant by
the Governor: such warrant shall be under his hand and seal.

46. Sections 43 and 44 shall apply to proclamations and
notifications issued by the Governor in Council; and section 45
shall apply to orders and directions of the Governor in Council,
except that the signification thereof shall be under the hand of
the Clerk of Councils.

PART VII.

Of public officers.

47. Unless it is otherwise expressly provided in any Ordin-
ance, every person who, by force or violence, resists, opposes,
molests, hinders or obstructs any public officer in the perform-
ance of his duty, or any person lawfully engaged, authorized or
employed in the performance of any public duty, or any person
lawfully acting in aid or assistance of any such public officer
or person, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars and to imprisonment not exceeding three months.

48.-(1) Unless it is otherwise expressly provided in any
enactment, all actions and prosecutions to be commenced against

As amended by No. 1 of 1927 [1.4.27].
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939,





any public officer for anything done or omitted to be done in
pursuance of any enactment shall be commenced within six
months after the act or omission, and not otherwise.

(2) In any such action the defendant may plead the general
issue, and give this Ordinance and any special matter in evidence
at any trial to be had thereupon.

(3) No plaintiff shall recover in any such action if tender
of sufficient amends has been made before such action brought,
or if a Sufficient sum of money has been paid into court after such
action brought, by or on behalf of the defendant.

(4) If a verdict passes for the defendant, or the plaintiff is
nonsuited or discontinues any such action after issue joined, or
if judgment is given against the plaintiff, the defendant shall
recover his full costs as between solicitor and client and shall
have the like remedy for the same as any defendant has by law in
othier cases; and though a verdict passes or judgment is given
for the plaintiff in any such action, the plaintiff shall not have
costs against the defendant unless the judge before whom the
trial is had certifies his approbation of the action.

PART VIII.

Of Government contracts.

49. In all contracts or other documents hereafter signed,
executed or made by the Governor or by any public officer on
behalf of the Governor or Government or of the public service,
it shall not be necessary to name such Governor or officer; it shall
be sufficient to name the office he holds; and the Governor or
officer performing the duties of the office named shall (unless the
contrary intention appears) be deemed to be a party thereto as
If the office of such Governor or officer was a corporation sole with
perpetual succession for this purpose.

50. Every contract and other document heretofore signed,
executed or made by any Governor or other public officer on
behalf of the Governor or Government or of the public service

As arnended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





shall (unless the contrary intention appears) be deemed to have
been made by such Governor or officer on behalf of himself and
his successors in office, and shall be enforceable by the Governor
or officer performing the duties of the office named, or by the
Attorney General on behalf of such Governor or officer as if
the office of such Governor or officer had, at the time of such
execution or making, been a corporation sole with perpetual
succession for this purpose.

51. Contracts made or to be made in England, for the
Government or for the public service by the Crown Agents, shall,
so far as the same corne within the jurisdiction of the courts of the
Colony, be deemed to have been made by the Governor.

52. The omission to add the title of the public office held by
any Governor or public officer signing or executing any such
contract or other document as aforesaid after the signature of
such officer shall not exclude such contract or other document
from the operation of this Part.

PART IX.

Miscellaneous.

53.-(1) In any Ordinance, instrument or document any
Act of the Imperial Parliament may be cited by reference to its
short title, if any, either with or without a reference to the chapter,
or by reference to the regnal year in which it was passed; and
where there are more statutes or sessions than one in the same
regnal year, by reference to the statute or the session, as the case
may require; and where there are more chapters than one, by
reference to the chapter; and any provision of any Act may be
cited by reference to the section or sub-section of the Act in which
the provision is contained.

(2) Where any Ordinance passed after the 1st day of January,
1898, contains such reference as aforesaid, the reference shall,
unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring, in the

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
Commencement of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1897: see No. 24 of
1897, s. 43.

case of statutes included in any revised edition of the statutes
purporting to be printed by authority, to that edition ; and in case
of statutes not so included and passed before the reign of King
George the First, to the edition prepared under the direction of
the Record Commission ; and in other cases to the copies of the
statutes purporting to be printed by the King's Printer or under
the superintendence or authority of His Majesty's Stationery
Office.

(3) In any Ordinance a description or citation of a portion of
an Act of Parliament shall, unless the contrary intention appears,
be construed'as including the word, section or other part mentioned
or referred to as forming the beginning and as forming the end of
the portion comprised in the description or citation.

(4) Any reference to an Act of Parliament shall include a
reference to regulations made thereunder.
[Originally No. 31 of 1911. No. 1 of 1927. No. 23 of 1930. No. 7 of 1935. No. 41 of 1935. No. 26 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Application of the Ordinance. Application of Ordinances. [cf. No. 1 of 1883, s. 40, No. 15 of 1935, s. 99, and No. 18 of 1935, s. 167 (1).] Application of provisions of this Ordinance. Commencement of Ordinances. Definition of 'commencement'. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 36 (1). Time of commencement. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 36 (2). Exercise of statutory powers between passing and commencement of Ordinance. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 37. Citation of Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 35. Ordinance No. 51 of 1936. Ordinance No. 51 of 1936. Effect of repeal on existing proclamations and regulations. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 11 (2). Effect of repeal generally. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 38 (2). Repeal of Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 11 (1). References to re-enacted provisions. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 38 (1). References to re-enacted Acts of Parliament. Operation of amending Ordinances. Disallowance. Ordinances to be public Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 9. Sections to be substantive enactments. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 8. Schedule, etc., to be part of Ordinances. Sub-divisions of Ordinances to be recognized. References to the Sovereign. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 30. Ordinances not binding on Crown unless expressed. construction of provisions as to exercise of powers and duties. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 32 (1). Construction of references to public officers. Construction of provisions granting powers to the holder of an office. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 32 (2). Proceedings not abated by change in office. Construction of references to other enactments; and to a series of days. Construction of references to sections, etc. Measurement of distances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 34. References to time. Meaning of service by post. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 26. Meaning of writing. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 20. Meaning of 'oath', 'affidavit' and 'swear'. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 3. Use of Chinese expressions in Ordinances. Meaning of 'or', 'other', 'otherwise'. Ordinance No. 30 of 1911. Burden of proof where acts done without lawful excuse, etc. Meaning of 'person' in criminal Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 2. [cf. s. 39-E (12).] Rules as to gender and number. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 1. Effect of notices in Gazette. Ordinance No. 2 of 1889. Application of of fees, fines and forfeitures. Definitions. Governor. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 18 (6). Governor in Council. Officer administering the Government. Secretary of State. [s. 39-A contd.] Crown Agents. Admiralty. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (4). Privy Council. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (5). Board of Trade. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (8). Imperial Parliament. Consul. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (20). Legislative Council. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (7). Treasury. Justice of the peace. Clerk of Councils. [s. 39 contd.] The Colony. Kowloon. New Territories. New Kowloon. [s. 39-B contd.] City of Victoria. Waters of the Colony. Harbour. Public seal. [s. 39-B contd.] Public office. Public officer. Ordinances Nos. 13 of 1886 and 6 of 1893. Officer of police, etc. Ordinance No. 37 of 1932. Health Officer. [s. 39 contd.] Government Analyst. Ordinance No. 8 of 1935. Prison. [cf. No. 38 of 1932, s. 2.] Superintendent of Prisons. Ordinance No. 38 of 1932. United Kingdom. British Islands. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 18 (1). British possession. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 18 (2). British colony. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (3). British India. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (4). India. 52 & 53 Vict. [s. 39 contd.] c. 63, s. 18 (5). High Court. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 13 (3). Court of assize. 52 & 53 Vict c. 63, s. 13 (4). Supreme Court. Probate court. Bankruptcy court. Colonial Court of Admiralty. Court. Magistrate. Ordinance No. 41 of 1932. [s. 39 contd.] Judge. Rules of court. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 14. Any Ordinance. Bank of England. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (18). [s. 39-E contd.] Bank of Ireland. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (19). Committed for trial. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 27. Definition. Enactment. Gazette. In this Ordinance, etc. Medical practitioner. Ordinance No. 41 of 1935. [s. 39-E contd.] Month. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 3. Offence. Person. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 19. Per cent. Proclamation. Provided, etc. solicitor. Ordinance No. 1 of 1871. Statute, etc. statutory declaration. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62. Ordinance No. 8 of 1893. Treaty. Will. Year. [s. 39-E contd.] Years of age. Extent of power to make regulations. 52 7 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 32 (3). Meaning of 'regulations'. Meaning of 'regulations'. Publication and effect. Powers of Governor in Council over regulations. Coming into operation of proclamations. Extent of power to issue proclamations. Signification of orders of the Governor. Application of certain previous sections. Interfering with public officers. Protection of public officers. acting under authority of enactment. [cf. No. 15 of 1935, s. 98, and No. 18 of 1935, s. 170.] Contracts by public officers. [cf. No. 10 of 1923, s. 20.] Effect of contracts already made by public officers. Contracts by Crown Agents. Omission of title after signature of public officer immaterial. Citation of Imperial Acts. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 35.

[Originally No. 31 of 1911. No. 1 of 1927. No. 23 of 1930. No. 7 of 1935. No. 41 of 1935. No. 26 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Application of the Ordinance. Application of Ordinances. [cf. No. 1 of 1883, s. 40, No. 15 of 1935, s. 99, and No. 18 of 1935, s. 167 (1).] Application of provisions of this Ordinance. Commencement of Ordinances. Definition of 'commencement'. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 36 (1). Time of commencement. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 36 (2). Exercise of statutory powers between passing and commencement of Ordinance. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 37. Citation of Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 35. Ordinance No. 51 of 1936. Ordinance No. 51 of 1936. Effect of repeal on existing proclamations and regulations. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 11 (2). Effect of repeal generally. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 38 (2). Repeal of Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 11 (1). References to re-enacted provisions. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 38 (1). References to re-enacted Acts of Parliament. Operation of amending Ordinances. Disallowance. Ordinances to be public Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 9. Sections to be substantive enactments. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 8. Schedule, etc., to be part of Ordinances. Sub-divisions of Ordinances to be recognized. References to the Sovereign. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 30. Ordinances not binding on Crown unless expressed. construction of provisions as to exercise of powers and duties. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 32 (1). Construction of references to public officers. Construction of provisions granting powers to the holder of an office. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 32 (2). Proceedings not abated by change in office. Construction of references to other enactments; and to a series of days. Construction of references to sections, etc. Measurement of distances. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 34. References to time. Meaning of service by post. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 26. Meaning of writing. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 20. Meaning of 'oath', 'affidavit' and 'swear'. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 3. Use of Chinese expressions in Ordinances. Meaning of 'or', 'other', 'otherwise'. Ordinance No. 30 of 1911. Burden of proof where acts done without lawful excuse, etc. Meaning of 'person' in criminal Ordinances. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 2. [cf. s. 39-E (12).] Rules as to gender and number. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 1. Effect of notices in Gazette. Ordinance No. 2 of 1889. Application of of fees, fines and forfeitures. Definitions. Governor. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 18 (6). Governor in Council. Officer administering the Government. Secretary of State. [s. 39-A contd.] Crown Agents. Admiralty. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (4). Privy Council. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (5). Board of Trade. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (8). Imperial Parliament. Consul. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (20). Legislative Council. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (7). Treasury. Justice of the peace. Clerk of Councils. [s. 39 contd.] The Colony. Kowloon. New Territories. New Kowloon. [s. 39-B contd.] City of Victoria. Waters of the Colony. Harbour. Public seal. [s. 39-B contd.] Public office. Public officer. Ordinances Nos. 13 of 1886 and 6 of 1893. Officer of police, etc. Ordinance No. 37 of 1932. Health Officer. [s. 39 contd.] Government Analyst. Ordinance No. 8 of 1935. Prison. [cf. No. 38 of 1932, s. 2.] Superintendent of Prisons. Ordinance No. 38 of 1932. United Kingdom. British Islands. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 18 (1). British possession. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 18 (2). British colony. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (3). British India. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (4). India. 52 & 53 Vict. [s. 39 contd.] c. 63, s. 18 (5). High Court. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 13 (3). Court of assize. 52 & 53 Vict c. 63, s. 13 (4). Supreme Court. Probate court. Bankruptcy court. Colonial Court of Admiralty. Court. Magistrate. Ordinance No. 41 of 1932. [s. 39 contd.] Judge. Rules of court. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 14. Any Ordinance. Bank of England. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (18). [s. 39-E contd.] Bank of Ireland. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 12 (19). Committed for trial. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 27. Definition. Enactment. Gazette. In this Ordinance, etc. Medical practitioner. Ordinance No. 41 of 1935. [s. 39-E contd.] Month. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 3. Offence. Person. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 19. Per cent. Proclamation. Provided, etc. solicitor. Ordinance No. 1 of 1871. Statute, etc. statutory declaration. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62. Ordinance No. 8 of 1893. Treaty. Will. Year. [s. 39-E contd.] Years of age. Extent of power to make regulations. 52 7 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 32 (3). Meaning of 'regulations'. Meaning of 'regulations'. Publication and effect. Powers of Governor in Council over regulations. Coming into operation of proclamations. Extent of power to issue proclamations. Signification of orders of the Governor. Application of certain previous sections. Interfering with public officers. Protection of public officers. acting under authority of enactment. [cf. No. 15 of 1935, s. 98, and No. 18 of 1935, s. 170.] Contracts by public officers. [cf. No. 10 of 1923, s. 20.] Effect of contracts already made by public officers. Contracts by Crown Agents. Omission of title after signature of public officer immaterial. Citation of Imperial Acts. 52 & 53 Vict. C. 63, s. 35.

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