Hong Kong Ordinances

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Commencement, etc., of Ordinance

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 26 of 1998 s. 11 PART IV

COMMENCEMENT, DISALLOWANCE, AMENDMENT AND REPEAL

(1) An Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette.

(2) An Ordinance commences- (Amended 26 of 1998 s. 11)

   (a)  at the beginning of the day on which it is published; or

   (b)  if provision is made for it to commence on another day, at the
        beginning of that other day.

(3) If an Ordinance-

   (a)  is to commence on a day to be notified in the Gazette, the notice may
        fix different days-

        (i)    for different provisions to commence (including commence for
               different purposes);

        (ii)   for the same provisions to commence for different purposes;

   (b)  is to be repealed from a day to be notified in the Gazette, the notice
        may fix different days-

        (i)    from which different provisions are to be repealed (including
               repealed for different purposes);

        (ii)   from which the same provisions are to be repealed for different
               purposes, and different notices may fix different days-

        (i)    for different provisions and for different purposes;

        (ii)   for the same provisions for different purposes. (Replaced 26 of
               1998 s. 11) (Replaced 89 of 1993 s. 8)