Cap 1 - INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE 1 Chapter: 1 INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES ORDINANCE Gazette Number Version Date Long title 30/06/1997 To consolidate and amend the law relating to the construction, application and interpretati on of laws, to make general provisions with regard thereto, to define terms and e xpressions used in laws and public documents, to make general provision with regard to public officers, public contracts a nd civil and criminal proceedings and for purposes and for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith. [31 December 1966] . 88 of 1966 (Originally 31 of 1966) Part: I SHORT TITLE AND APPLICATION 30/06/1997 Section: 1 Short title 30/06/1997 This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance. Section: 2 Application 26 of 1998 01/07/1997 Remarks: 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 sh all apply to this Ordinance and to any other Ordinance in force, whether such other Ordinance came es in to operation before or after mencement 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) ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 O
