Hong Kong Ordinances

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE - SECT 38

Presumption of lawful exercise of power

PART VI

POWERS

Where any Ordinance confers power upon any person to-

   (a)  make any subsidiary legislation;

   (b)  make any instrument; or

   (c)  exercise any power, and the Ordinance conferring the power prescribes
        conditions, subject to the observance, performance or existence of
        which any such power may be exercised, such conditions shall be
        presumed to have been duly fulfilled if in the subsidiary legislation,
        the instrument or the document evidencing the exercise of the power
        there is a statement that the subsidiary legislation or instrument is
        made, or the power exercised, in exercise of, or in pursuance of, the
        power conferred by such Ordinance, or a statement to the like effect.
        (Amended 89 of 1993 s. 18)