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the Colony of Singapore applying by virtue of an Ordinance made under section 12 of the Act as a law of the Territory before 1 July 1992; or
 (c) an Imperial Act or Order in Council in its application to the Territory under section 8 of the Act as in force before 1 July 1992; or
 (d) an Ordinance of the Colony of the Straits Settlements in force in the Colony of Singapore immediately before the commencement of the Act or the date of its application as a law of the Territory; or
 (e) a law referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) as amended or affected by a Commonwealth Ordinance.
10 Gazette to be evidence of certain matters
  A printed copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette or the Australian Government Gazette purporting to be published by authority and to be printed by the Government Printer, or a printed copy of the Government Gazette of the Territory purporting to be published by authority:
 (a) shall be admitted in evidence by all courts and in all legal proceedings without proof that that copy was so published and printed, or so published; and
 (b) is evidence that it was published on the day on which it bears date and of appointments and notifications printed in it and of the matters and things contained in those appointments and notifications.
11 Compliance with forms
  Where forms are prescribed for the purposes of an Ordinance, substantial compliance with those forms is, unless the contrary intention appears, sufficient.
12 Standard time
 (1) Where:
 (a) an expression of time occurs in an Ordinance; or
 (b) the doing of an act, or omission to do an act, at a certain time of day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law;
that time shall, unless it is otherwise expressly stated, be deemed to be standard time.
 (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), standard time means 6 ½ hours in advance of Greenwich mean time.
12A Offences under 2 or more laws
 (1) Where an act or omission constitutes offences under 2 or more Ordinances, or constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an offence at common law, the offender is, unless the contrary intention appears, liable to be prosecuted and convicted under either or any of those Ordinances or under that Ordinance or at common law, but is not liable to be punished more than once in respect of that act or omission.
 (2) Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an Act and the offender has been punished for the offence under the Act, the offender is not liable