Hong Kong Ordinances

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE - SECT 2

Application

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 26 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Save where the contrary intention appears either from this Ordinance or
from the context of any other Ordinance or instrument, the provisions of this
Ordinance shall apply to this Ordinance and to any other Ordinance in force,
whether such other Ordinance came or comes into operation before or after the
commencement of this Ordinance, and to any instrument made or issued under or
by virtue of any such Ordinance.

(1A) The inclusion of the substance of a provision of this Ordinance in
another Ordinance does not imply the exclusion of the application of any other
provision of this Ordinance to the other Ordinance. (Added 89 of 1993 s. 2)

(2) This Ordinance shall be binding on the State. (Replaced 26 of 1998 s. 2)
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___ Note: Please also see s. 1(3) of 26 of 1998, which is subject to article
12 of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights set out in Part II of Cap 383. That s. 1(3)
reads as follows- "(3) Save where the contrary intention appears either from
the amended Ordinance or from the context of any other Ordinance or
instrument, the provisions of the amended Ordinance shall apply to the amended
Ordinance and to any other Ordinance in force, whether such other Ordnance
came or comes into operation before, on or after 1 July 1997, and to any
instrument made or issued under or by virtue of any such Ordinance.". (Please
note that "amended Ordinance" referred to in the above s. 1(3) means Cap 1 as
amended by 26 of 1998.)