Hong Kong Ordinances

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE - SECT 46

Power to make public instruments and perform acts

Where any Ordinance confers power upon any person to make, grant, issue or
approve any proclamation, order, notice, declaration, instrument,
notification, licence, permit, exemption, register or list, such power shall
include power-

   (a)  to amend or suspend such proclamation, order, notice, declaration,
        instrument, notification, licence, permit, exemption, register or
        list;

   (b)  to substitute another proclamation, order, notice, declaration,
        instrument, notification, licence, permit, exemption, register or list
        for one already made, granted, issued or approved;

   (c)  to withdraw approval of any proclamation, order, notice, declaration,
        instrument, notification, licence, permit, exemption, register or list
        so approved; and

   (d)  to declare the date of the coming into operation, and the period of
        operation, of any such proclamation, order, notice, declaration,
        instrument, notification, licence, permit, exemption, register or
        list. (Amended 89 of 1993 s. 21)