Chapter:	65	Title:	LEGAL TENDER NOTES ISSUE ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	2	Heading:	Interpretation	Version Date:	30/06/1997

In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"bank" (銀行) includes any person, partnership, or company carrying on the business of banking within Hong Kong;
"legal tender notes" (法定貨幣紙幣)-

(a) means-
(i) currency notes issued in Hong Kong by the Financial Secretary pursuant to section 3(1); and
(ii) bank notes issued in Hong Kong by a note-issuing bank in accordance with the terms and conditions (if any) to which its authorization (or deemed authorization) under section 3(2) is subject; and
(b) includes any bank notes which were legal tender pursuant to this Ordinance as in force immediately before the commencement of the Bank Notes Issue (Amendment) Ordinance 1995 (98 of 1995);

(a) authorized (or deemed to be authorized) under section 3(2); and
(b) specified in the Schedule for the purposes of this definition.