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“subsidiary legislation” and “regulations” mean any proclamation, rule, regulation, order, resolution, notice, rule of court, by-law or other instrument made under or by virtue of any Ordinance and having legislative effect;

“summary conviction” means a summary conviction by a magistrate in accordance with the provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance;

“summer time” means summer time as defined in section 68;

“Supreme Court” means the Supreme Court of Hong Kong;

“surname” includes a clan or family name;

“territorial waters” means such part of the sea adjacent to the coast of the Colony as is deemed by international law to constitute the territorial waters of Hong Kong;

“treaty” means a treaty, convention or agreement made with a foreign state, and any protocol or declaration attached thereto or independent thereof but referring thereto;

“triable summarily” means triable by a magistrate, in accordance with the provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance;

“trust territory” means a territory administered by the Government of any part of Her Majesty’s dominions under the trusteeship system of the United Nations;

“United Kingdom" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

“urban areas” means the Colony, excluding the New Territories except New Kowloon;

“Urban Council” means the Urban Council established by the Urban Council Ordinance 1955;

“vessel” means any ship or boat and any description of vessel used in navigation;

“waters of the Colony” and “Colonial waters” mean—
 * (a) all waters, whether navigable or not, included in the Colony; and
 * (b) territorial waters;

“will” includes any testamentary instrument;

“words” includes figures and symbols;

“writing” and “printing” include writing, printing, lithography, photography, typewriting and any other mode of representing words in a visible form;

“year” means a year according to the Gregorian calendar;