Article 151
The people's congresses of the national autonomous areas may
formulate separate adaptive or supplementary regulations or
provisions in accordance with the principles of this Law and in
light of the characteristics of the local nationalities. Those
formulated by the people's congresses of autonomous regions shall
be submitted in accordance with the law to the Standing Committee
of the National People's Congress for approval or for the record.
Those formulated by the people's congresses of autonomous prefectures
or autonomous counties shall be submitted to the standing committee
of the people's congress in the relevant province or autonomous
region for approval.
Article 152
If an enterprise owned by the whole people has been established with
the approval of the competent authority of a province, autonomous
region or centrally administered municipality or at a higher level
and it has already been registered with the administrative agency
for industry and commerce, before this Law comes into force, it shall
automatically qualify as a legal person without having to re-register
as such.
Article 153
For the purpose of this Law, "force majeure" means unforeseeable,
unavoidable and insurmountable objective conditions.
Article 154
Time periods referred to in the Civil Law shall be calculated by the
Gregorian calendar in years, months, days and hours.
When a time period is prescribed in hours, calculation of the period
shall begin on the prescribed hour. When a time period is prescribed
in days, months and years, the day on which the period begins shall
not be counted as within the period; calculation shall begin on the
next day.
If the last day of a time period falls on a Sunday or an official
holiday, the day after the holiday shall be taken as the last day.
The last day shall end at 24:00 hours. If business hours are
applicable, the last day shall end at closing time.
Article 155
In this Law, the terms "not less than," "not more than," "within"
and "expires" shall include the given figure; the terms "under" and
"beyond" shall not include the given figure.
Article 156
This Law shall come into force on January 1, 1987.
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