### Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1965 《1965年法例編正版條例》

6. Mode of dealing with omissions or amendments not authorized by sections 4 and 5
(1) If the commissioner considers it is desirable that in the preparation of the revised edition there should be omissions or amendments other than those authorized by sections 4 and 5, the same, although not in pari materia, may be combined in one or more Ordinances.
(2) If such Ordinance or Ordinances are enacted prior to the effective date, then—
(a) the commissioner shall, in the preparation of the revised edition, give the like effect to such omissions or amendments as if they had been authorized by section 4 or 5; and
(b) if as a result of any such omission or amendment any Ordinance or part thereof has been repealed or has expired or become spent or had its effect, such Ordinance or part shall be omitted from the revised edition.

7. Contents of the revised edition
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 4 and subsection (2) of section 6, the revised edition shall include all unrepealed Ordinances enacted before the 1st day of January, 1965, and may contain such Ordinances enacted after such date as the commissioner may think fit to include therein.
(2) Each Ordinance shall form a separate Chapter.
(3) The Chapter number or the number and year, whichever the commissioner considers appropriate, of the principal Ordinance and of each incorporated Ordinance and the number and year of each amending Ordinance shall be set out as a note at the beginning of each Chapter. (Amended 2 of 1989 s. 2)
(4) The commencement of each principal Ordinance shall be set out immediately below the long title.

8. Method of compiling the revised edition
The commissioner shall cause the revised edition of every Ordinance to be published in the form of one or more separate booklets each of which shall contain—
(a) on the front page thereof the expressions—
(i) “Laws of Hong Kong”; and
(ii) “Revised Edition 1964, Printed and Published by the Government Printer, Hong Kong”; and
(b) at the top of every subsequent page of each such booklet the expression “1964 Ed.”.

9. Binding of booklets
(1) The commissioner shall cause the various booklets which have been compiled for the purposes of section 8 to be contained together in such number of volumes as he considers convenient.
(2) A booklet shall be bound in such manner as will enable it to be easily removed from and replaced in a volume.

### Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1965 《1965年法例編正版條例》

10. Copies of revised edition to be kept for record
(1) The commissioner shall cause three complete sets of the booklets which have been compiled for the purposes of section 8 to be bound together in volumes in a permanent manner.
(2) The title page of each volume of booklets so bound shall be sealed with the Public Seal of Hong Kong and one copy of each volume shall be transmitted to the Chief Secretary, one copy of each volume to the Attorney General and one copy of each volume to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and shall be retained by them for record purposes. (Amended L.N. 226 of 1976; 39 of 1999 s. 3)

11. Bringing of revised edition into operation
(1) The Governor may, by Proclamation, approve the revised edition# and order that the revised edition shall come into operation on such date as he may specify in such Proclamation.
(2) From the effective date the revised edition shall be deemed to be and shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper laws of Hong Kong in respect of all Ordinances contained therein. (Amended 39 of 1999 s. 3)

Editorial Note:
# The revised edition was approved and brought into operation on 1 February 1967 by Proclamation No. 2 of 1967 (L.N. 4 of 1967).

12. Complementary matter in revised edition
(1) The revised edition may also contain a reprint of such imperial enactments, treaties and conventions and such indices, notes and references as the commissioner considers useful to include.
(2)  When any imperial enactment, treaty or convention is reprinted in pursuance of subsection (1), the provisions of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with such amendments as may have been made thereto, and where any imperial enactment, treaty or convention has been applied or extended to Hong Kong with modifications the provisions of that imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with those modifications: (Amended 39 of 1999 s. 3)
Provided that every departure from the original text of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention shall be clearly shown by notes, references or other similar means. 
(3) The commissioner may also cause the reprint referred to in subsection (1) to be published in such number of separate booklets, in the manner prescribed by section 8, or in such other form as he considers convenient.

### Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1965 《1965年法例編正版條例》

14. Additional power to revise
(1) Without prejudice to the powers conferred by section 13, the Attorney General may also—
(a) consolidate into one Ordinance any two or more Ordinances in pari materia;
(b) divide any Ordinance into two or more Ordinances; or
(c) transfer to subsidiary legislation any part of an Ordinance which can more conveniently be included as subsidiary legislation under that Ordinance or under any other Ordinance.
(2) Where the Attorney General has exercised the powers conferred by subsection (1), he shall, as soon as practicable after the first day of January in the year following such exercise, cause to be published in the form of a separate booklet—
(a) any Ordinance into which two or more Ordinances have been consolidated;
(b) each Ordinance into which any Ordinance has been divided; and
(c) the subsidiary legislation into which any part of an Ordinance has been transferred.
(Added 18 of 1971 s. 2)

15. Powers and duties of Attorney General
(1) For the purposes of sections 13 and 14, the Attorney General may exercise and perform, mutatis mutandis, the powers and duties conferred or imposed by this Ordinance upon the commissioner. (Amended L.N. 262 of 1985)
(2) In any booklet published pursuant to section 13 or 14, the law shall be as it was on the preceding thirty-first day of December and shall contain at the beginning thereof the year of that thirty-first day of December.
(3) Where a new revised edition of subsidiary legislation made under or by virtue of an Ordinance is published in a separate booklet under section 13(3)(b) or under section 14(2)(c), such booklet shall be part of the Chapter of the Ordinance under or by virtue of which that subsidiary legislation is made. (Replaced 25 of 1974 s. 3)
(4) The Attorney General shall transmit to the Governor a copy of every booklet published under section 13 or 14 and with effect from such date as the Governor may specify by notice in the Gazette any such booklet shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper law of Hong Kong in respect of that Ordinance, or in the case of a booklet containing subsidiary legislation only, that subsidiary legislation. (Amended 39 of 1999 s. 3)
(Added 18 of 1971 s. 2)