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A194
Ord. No. 31/66
INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES

(b) maximum or minimum fees or charges;
(c) maximum and minimum fees or charges;
(d) the payment of fees or charges either generally or under specified conditions or in specified circumstances;
(e) the exemption of any person or class of persons from the payment of fees or charges; and
(f) the reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of any such fees or charges, either upon the happening of a certain event or in the discretion of a specified person.

(2) Where any reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of any fee or charge is provided for by any subsidiary legislation, such reduction, waiver or refund may be expressed to apply or be applicable either generally or specially—

(a) in respect of certain matters or transactions or classes of matters or transactions;
(b) in respect of certain documents or classes of documents;
(c) in respect of the occurrence or the termination of any event;
(d) in respect of certain persons or classes of persons; or
(e) in respect of any combination of such matters, transactions, documents, events or persons,

and may be expressed to apply or be applicable subject to such conditions as may be specified in the subsidiary legislation or in the discretion of any person specified therein.

Effect of subsidiary legislation. 30. Subsidiary legislation shall have the same force and effect and shall be as binding and shall be construed for all purposes as if it had been contained in the Ordinance under which it was made.

Construction of subsidiary legislation. 31. Where any Ordinance confers power to make any subsidiary legislation, expressions used in the subsidiary legislation shall have the same meaning as in the Ordinance conferring the power, and any reference in such subsidiary legislation to “the Ordinance” shall be construed as a reference to the Ordinance conferring the power to make such subsidiary legislation.

Exercise of statutory powers between enactment and commencement of Ordinance. 32. Where an Ordinance is not to come into operation on or before the expiration of the day next preceding the day of the publication thereof and confers power to make any appointment, to make any subsidiary legislation, to issue notices, to prescribe forms or to do any other thing for the purposes of the Ordinance, such power may be exercised at any time after the publication of the Ordinance in the Gazette: