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“Kowloon” means the area specified in the Fourth Schedule;

“law” means any law for the time being in force in, having legislative effect in, extending to, or applicable in, the Colony;

“Legislative Council” means the Legislative Council of Hong Kong;

“magistrate” means—
 * (a) any person appointed to be a permanent, special or marine magistrate under the Magistrates Ordinance; and
 * (b) two justices of the peace sitting together, to whom subsection (2) of section 7 of the Magistrates Ordinance applies;

“master”, when used with reference to a vessel, means the person (except a pilot) having for the time being command or charge of the vessel;

“medical practitioner”, “registered medical practitioner” and any words importing that a person is recognized by any Ordinance to be a medical practitioner in Hong Kong or a member of the medical profession in Hong Kong, mean a person duly registered as, or deemed to be registered as, a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance 1957;

“month” means calendar month;

“movable property” means property of every description except immovable property;

“New Kowloon” means the area specified in the Fifth Schedule;

“New Territories” means the territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the ;

“oath” and “affidavit” include, in the case of persons allowed or required by law to affirm instead of swearing, affirmation; and “swear” in the like case includes affirm;

“occupy” includes use, inhabit, be in possession of or enjoy the land or premises to which the word relates, otherwise than as a mere servant or for the mere purpose of the care, custody or charge thereof;

“offence” includes any crime, treason, felony or misdemeanor and any contravention or other breach of, or failure to comply with, any provision of any Ordinance, for which a penalty is provided;

“officer administering the Government” means the person who succeeds to or is appointed to the administration of the Government of the Colony in accordance with Article XVII of the Letters Patent or under any corresponding provision contained in any other imperial enactment amending or substituted for the same;