### Legislation Publication Ordinance 《法例發布條例》

12. Powers to make editorial amendments
The Secretary for Justice may, in an Ordinance—
(aa) if a chapter number has been given to the Ordinance under section 11(a)—alter the title, short title or citation of the Ordinance; (Added 17 of 2018 s. 24)
(a) 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. 18; 17 of 2018 s. 24)
(ab) after a reference to the title, short title or citation of another Ordinance—
(i) insert the chapter number given to that other Ordinance under section 11(a) or the number of that other Ordinance among the Ordinances of the year in which it was published in the Gazette; and
(ii) 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. 24)
(b) correct a grammatical, clerical or typographical error;
(c) change the way of referring to or expressing a number, year, date, time, amount of money, quantity or measurement;
(d) alter the text of a provision to reflect an amendment to the provision deemed to have been made by another provision;
(e) omit any enacting, expired or spent provision;
(f) change the sequence of definitions, or of unnumbered items in a list;
(g) 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;
(ga) 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. 18)
(h) change the format, layout, printing style or any other presentational aspect; and
(i) make an amendment that is consequential on any amendment made under this section (other than this paragraph).

13. Editorial amendments not to change legal effect of Ordinances
Section 12 does not permit any editorial amendment that would change the legal effect of any Ordinance.

### Legislation Publication Ordinance 《法例發布條例》

14. Effect of editorial amendments
(1) An Ordinance that is amended under section 12 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.
(2) The effective date of an editorial amendment—
(a) must not be a date earlier than the date on which the record containing a description of the amendment is first published under section 15; and
(b) must be specified in the record.
(3) A copy of the amended Ordinance, as published on an approved website, must indicate in a suitable place the fact that it has been amended under section 12.
(Replaced 17 of 2018 s. 25)

15. Secretary for Justice to compile record of editorial amendments
(1) The Secretary for Justice must compile a record containing—
(a) descriptions of editorial amendments made; and
(b) (Repealed 17 of 2018 s. 26)(c) other information that the Secretary for Justice considers useful to users of the record.
(2) The record is to be published on an approved website in a form that the Secretary for Justice considers appropriate.
(Amended 17 of 2018 s. 26)

### Legislation Publication Ordinance 《法例發布條例》

17. Powers to make revisions
The Secretary for Justice may, by order in the Gazette—
(a) make an alteration to an Ordinance for the purpose of securing uniformity in expression within the Ordinance or with another Ordinance;
(b) alter the form or arrangement of a section of an Ordinance, by transferring words, by combining it in whole or in part with another section or other sections of the Ordinance or by dividing it into subsections;
(c) transfer a saving or transitional provision in an Ordinance to another Ordinance to which that provision relates;
(d) organize the provisions of an Ordinance into, and assign numbers and headings to, groups of provisions, without changing the sequence of those provisions;
(e) amend the heading of a provision or a group of provisions in an Ordinance to reflect the contents of the provision or the group of provisions;
(f) if the name, title, location or address of a department, office, officer or place has changed, make an alteration to that name, title, location or address appearing in an Ordinance to reflect the change;
(g) amend an Ordinance to effect the replacement of a reference to a date in the form of a description by the actual calendar date;
(h) amend an Ordinance to effect the replacement of a general reference to another Ordinance by—
(i) the title, short title or citation of that other Ordinance; (Amended 26 of 2012 s. 19)
(ii) its number among the Ordinances of the year in which it was enacted or made; or
(iii) the chapter number given to it under section 11(a);
(i) replace a word or expression in an Ordinance indicating gender or that could be taken to indicate gender by a gender-neutral word or expression;
(j) amend an Ordinance to change the way of referring to a provision; and
(k) make an amendment to an Ordinance that is consequential on any amendment made under this section (other than this paragraph).

18. Commencement of revision order
An order made under section 17 is not to come into operation before the expiry of the period within which a resolution providing for the amendment of the order may be passed in accordance with section 34 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1).

23. Enactments amended
The enactments specified in Divisions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are amended as set out in those Divisions.

27. Laws (Loose-leaf Publication) Ordinance 1990 repealed
(Not yet in operation)
The Laws (Loose-leaf Publication) Ordinance 1990 (51 of 1990)—
Repeal the Ordinance.

### Legislation Publication Ordinance 《法例發布條例》

28. Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1965 repealed
(Not yet in operation)
The Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance 1965 (53 of 1965)—
Repeal the Ordinance.