Portal:Ordinances of Hong Kong

This is a list of ordinances as originally enacted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, sorted by their original citation and their year of enactment.

Ordinances without short titles when they were originally enacted are named using the short title assigned to them retroactively by another ordinance. Ordinances without a retroactive short title are named using the short form used in the earliest edition of The Ordinances of Hong Kong. A citation indicating the edition of The Ordinances of Hong Kong is included if a short form from the collection is used.

1844

Citation	Short title
No. 1 of 1844	Slavery Ordinance[1]
No. 2 of 1844	Printing Regulation Ordinance[1]
No. 3 of 1844	Registration of Deeds Wills &c. Ordinance[1]
No. 4 of 1844	Merchant Shipping Ordinance[1]
No. 5 of 1844	Good Order and Cleanliness Ordinance[1]
No. 6 of 1844	Civil Actions-Arbitration Ordinance[1]
No. 7 of 1844	Usury Laws Ordinance[1]
No. 8 of 1844	Distillation of Spirits Ordinance[1]
No. 9 of 1844	Restraint of Trade in China Ordinance[1]
No. 10 of 1844	Justices of Peace-Summary Jurisdiction Ordinance[1]
No. 11 of 1844	Licensing Public Houses, &c. Ordinance[1]
No. 12 of 1844	Police Force Regulation Ordinance[1]
No. 13 of 1844	Chinese Peace Officers Regulation Ordinance[1]
No. 14 of 1844	Public Gaming Ordinance[1]
No. 15 of 1844	Supreme Court Ordinance[1]
No. 16 of 1844	Registration of Inhabitants Ordinance[1]
No. 17 of 1844	Peace and Quiet Ordinance[1]
No. 18 of 1844	Registration and Census Ordinance[1]
No. 19 of 1844	Harbour Regulation Ordinance[1]
No. 20 of 1844	Martial Law Ordinance[1]
No. 21 of 1844	Salt, Opium Licensing &c. Ordinance[1]
No. 22 of 1844	Weights and Measures Ordinance[1]

1853

Citation	Short title
No. 2 of 1853	Aliens (Rights of Property) Ordinance, 1853
No. 3 of 1853	Ordinance No. 3 of 1853

1886

Citation	Short title
No. 1 of 1886
No. 2 of 1886	The Apportionment Ordinance, 1886
No. 3 of 1886	The Larceny and Embezzlement Amendment Ordinance, 1886
No. 4 of 1886	The Infants Custody Ordinance, 1886
No. 5 of 1886	The Sales of Reversions Ordinance, 1886
No. 6 of 1886	The Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1886
No. 7 of 1886	The Usury Ordinance, 1886
No. 15 of 1886	The Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886
No. 16 of 1886	The Stamp Ordinance, 1886
No. 17 of 1886	The Opium Ordinance, 1886
No. 19 of 1886	The Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1886
No. 20 of 1886	The Harbour Regulations Ordinance, 1886

1893

Citation	Short title
No. 14 of 1893	Appropriation Ordinance 1893
No. 15 of 1893	Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance 1893

1991

Citation	Short title
No. 59 of 1991	Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1991

1997

Citation	Short title
No. 110 of 1997	Hong Kong Reunification Ordinance

1. Leach, A.J. (1890). The Ordinances of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hongkong, Commencing with the Year 1844 1 (Concise ed.). Hongkong: Noronha & Co., Government Printers.