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Legislation Publication Ordinance Part 4—Division 1 Section 11 Part 4 Editorial Amendments and Record Division 1 Editorial Powers 11. Powers to give chapter numbers etc.

The Secretary for Justice may—
 * (a) give a chapter number to an Ordinance and alter the short title or citation of the Ordinance; and
 * (b) in the database, arrange the grouping and sequence of database instruments.

12. Powers to make editorial amendments

The Secretary for Justice may, in an Ordinance—
 * (a) replace a reference to the short title or citation of another Ordinance that has been altered under section 11(a), by the altered short title or citation;
 * (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;