Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance

(1)
The English language text and the Chinese language text of an Ordinance shall be equally authentic, and the Ordinance shall be construed accordingly.
(2)
The provisions of an Ordinance are presumed to have the same meaning in each authentic text.
(3)
Where a comparison of the authentic texts of an Ordinance discloses a difference of meaning which the rules of statutory interpretation ordinarily applicable do not resolve, the meaning which best reconciles the texts, having regard to the object and purposes of the Ordinance, shall be adopted.
(Amended
L.N.46 of 1991
)