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Legislation Publication Ordinance Part 5 Section 17 Part 5 Revisions to Ordinances 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—