Cap. 1activeordinance

Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance

釋義及通則條例

Full legislation

s.38

Presumption of lawful exercise of power

Where any Ordinance confers power upon any person
to—
(a)
make any subsidiary legislation;
(b)
make any instrument; or
(c)
exercise any power,
and the Ordinance conferring the power prescribes conditions, subject to the observance, performance or existence of which any such power may be exercised, such conditions shall be presumed to have been duly fulfilled if in the subsidiary legislation, the instrument or the document evidencing the exercise of the power there is a statement that the subsidiary legislation or instrument is made, or the power exercised, in exercise of, or in pursuance of, the power conferred by such Ordinance, or a statement to the like effect.
(Amended
89 of 1993 s. 18
)