An Ordinance to provide for the publication of an edition in loose-leaf form of the Laws of Hong Kong.
[13 July 1990]
(Enacting provision omitted—E.R. 1 of 2012)
(Format changes—E.R. 1 of 2012)
(Amended 13 of 2011 s. 24)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Laws (Loose-leaf Publication) Ordinance 1990.
(Repealed 13 of 2011 s. 25)
The Secretary for Justice may cause to be published any Ordinance or other legislation which applies in Hong Kong in an edition in loose-leaf form (the loose-leaf edition (活頁版)) and may from time to time cause to be published new or replacement pages for the loose-leaf edition to keep it correct and up to date.
The Secretary for Justice may, in the loose-leaf edition—
give a chapter number to an Ordinance; and (Amended 26 of 2012 s. 20; 17 of 2018 s. 28)
arrange the grouping and sequence of legislation. (Replaced 13 of 2011 s. 20)
The Secretary for Justice may cause to be published any Ordinance, as published in the loose-leaf edition, in the form of a separate booklet.
The Secretary for Justice may include in the loose-leaf edition and in any booklet such notes, indexes and other information as the Secretary for Justice considers useful. (Amended L.N 80 of 2012)
In the loose-leaf edition and in every booklet each page must include the statement “Authorized Loose-leaf Edition, Printed and Published by the Director of Government Logistics, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”. (Amended 39 of 1999 s. 3; L.N. 164 of 2003; L.N. 80 of 2012)
Material included in the loose-leaf edition or in a booklet pursuant to subsection (4) and the statement included therein as required by subsection (5) are not part of any Ordinance or other legislation.
(Repealed 13 of 2011 s. 20)
(Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)
The Secretary for Justice may, in an Ordinance— (Amended 26 of 2012 s. 21)
if a chapter number has been given to the Ordinance under section 2(2)(a)—alter the title, short title or citation of the Ordinance; (Added 17 of 2018 s. 29)
replace a reference to the title, short title or citation of another Ordinance that has been altered under paragraph (aa), by the altered title, short title or citation; (Amended 26 of 2012 s. 21; 17 of 2018 s. 29)
after a reference to the title, short title or citation of another Ordinance—
insert the chapter number given to that other Ordinance under section 2(2)(a) or the number of that other Ordinance among the Ordinances of the year in which it was published in the Gazette; and
if another reference of any other kind to that other Ordinance appears after the reference to the title, short title or citation—omit that other reference; (Replaced 17 of 2018 s. 29)
correct a grammatical, clerical or typographical error;
change the way of referring to or expressing a number, year, date, time, amount of money, quantity or measurement;
alter the text of a provision to reflect an amendment to the provision deemed to have been made by another provision;
omit any enacting, expired or spent provision;
change the sequence of definitions, or of unnumbered items in a list;
insert, after an item in a list appearing in the text of one official language, the equivalent of that item in the other official language;
if a word or expression is defined, or the construction of a reference to a word or expression is provided for, in the text of one official language, insert after that word or expression its equivalent in the other official language; (Added 26 of 2012 s. 21)
change the format, layout, printing style or any other presentational aspect; and
make an amendment that is consequential on any amendment made under this subsection (other than this paragraph).
Subsection (1) does not permit any amendment that would change the legal effect of any Ordinance.
An Ordinance amended under subsection (1), as published in the loose-leaf edition, must indicate in a suitable place the fact that it has been amended under subsection (1).
(Added 13 of 2011 s. 21)
The Secretary for Justice must compile a record containing—
descriptions of editorial amendments made; and
other information that the Secretary for Justice considers useful to users of the record.
The record is to be published—
in the loose-leaf edition; and
in a form that the Secretary for Justice considers appropriate.
An Ordinance that is amended under section 2A(1) has effect for all purposes, on and after the effective date of the editorial amendment, as if the amendment had been made by another Ordinance that commenced on that date.
The effective date of an editorial amendment—
must not be a date which is earlier than the date on which the record containing a description of the amendment, as specified in subsection (1)(a), is first published under subsection (2); and
must be specified in the record.
In this section—
editorial amendment (編輯修訂) means an amendment to an Ordinance made under section 2A(1).(Added 13 of 2011 s. 21)
Where any provision of an Ordinance appears in a page or booklet which purports to be published under the authority of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region pursuant to this Ordinance, then unless the contrary is proved— (Amended 39 of 1999 s. 3)
the page or booklet is deemed to be so published; and
the provision as so appearing is deemed to be correct.
(Amended L.N. 80 of 2012)
The Secretary for Justice may omit a verified Ordinance from the loose-leaf edition.
For the purposes of subsection (1), an Ordinance is verified if a consolidated copy of the Ordinance, as published on an approved website, bears an official verification mark.
In this section—
approved website (認可網站) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Legislation Publication Ordinance (Cap. 614); consolidated copy (編訂文本) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Legislation Publication Ordinance (Cap. 614); official verification mark (官方核證標記) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Legislation Publication Ordinance (Cap. 614).(Added 13 of 2011 s. 22)
(Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2012)
(Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2012)
(Repealed 13 of 2011 s. 26)
(Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2012)