(5) For the purposes of this section, the Attorney General shall have and perform, mutatis mutandis, the powers and duties conferred or imposed by this Ordinance upon the commissioner.
Publication of lists of titles of current laws. 14. The Attorney General shall, as soon as practicable after any date specified in any notice published under subsection (4) of section 13, cause to be published in the Gazette a list of the titles of all Ordinances in force in Hong Kong and the year of the last published edition thereof.
Distribution of revised edition. 15. (1) Copies of the revised edition compiled in the manner provided by section 8 and of any booklet published under section 13 shall be distributed without charge to such persons, officers, departments and institutions as the Governor may direct.
(2) There shall be offered to the public such number of copies so compiled and booklets so prepared at such price as the Governor may direct.
(3) Any person may, on payment of such fee as the Governor may direct, become entitled to receive a copy of each booklet published under section 13 and issued in any one year.
(4) The Government Printer shall, on the application of a subscriber, supply him with all the booklets to which he is entitled.
Rectification of errors. 16. (1) The Attorney General may, by order published in the Gazette, rectify any clerical or printing error appearing in the revised edition or in any booklet published under section 13, or rectify in a manner not inconsistent with the powers of revision conferred by this Ordinance any other error so appearing.
(2) Every order made under this section shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council without unreasonable delay, and, if a resolution is passed at the next meeting of the Legislative Council held after the meeting at which the order is so laid that the order be annulled, it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder, or to the making of a new order.
Construction of references to repealed or amended Ordinances. 17. Whenever in any Ordinance, or in any document of whatever kind, any reference is made to any provision of any Ordinance affected by or under the operation of this Ordinance, the reference shall, where necessary and practicable, be construed as a reference to the corresponding provision in the revised edition or in any booklet published under section 13.
Expenses of preparation and publication. 18. The Governor may, by warrant addressed to the Accountant General, direct the payment of all expenses of and incidental to the preparation, publication, distribution and sale of the revised edition and of booklets published under section 13.
