Revised Edition Laws Annual Volumes Ordinance 1955

Every Enactment of Sabah shall be published in the First Supplement to the

Gazette.

Whenever under the provisions of any written law any subsidiary legislation of

Sabah, other than subsidiary legislation made by a local authority under any written law, is required to be published in the Gazette or any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, Letters

Patent or Royal Instructions having legal effect within Sabah or any Treaty or International

Convention is promulgated then, if the Attorney-General thinks fit, all such matter shall be published in the Second Supplement to the Gazette.

The Attorney-General may direct that matter which is not required to be published in the First or Second Supplement under the provisions of subsection (1) or (2)

shall be published in such other supplements as he may think fit

Any Supplement to the Gazette published in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be published by order of the Government within the meaning of the definition of “Gazette” in the Interpretation and General Clauses Enactment,

1963 [En. 34/1963.].

Supplements to be bound annually.

in the case of the Enactments published in the First Supplement to the Gazette, an alphabetical list prepared under the direction of the Attorney-General of all

Enactments in force at the end of the calendar year in question and of any other

Enactment enacted prior to the end of such calendar year which has not yet been brought into force or which may have been omitted from any volume of the

Revised Edition of the Laws (including any supplementary or annual volume)

prepared under the provisions of any written law relating to the Revised Edition of the Laws which is still in force or may be brought into force at any later date;

and

in the case of the matters contained in the Second Supplement to the Gazette-

a list prepared under the direction of the Attorney-General by reference to the written law under which the same was enacted, of all subsidiary legislation in force at the end of the calendar year in question and of any subsidiary legislation enacted prior to the end of such calendar year which has not yet been brought into force or which may have been omitted from any volume of the Revised Edition of the Laws (including any supplementary or annual volume) prepared under the provisions of any written law relating to the Revised Edition of the Laws, which is still in force or may be brought into force at any later date:

Provided that this subparagraph shall not have effect in any year if a separate cumulative index of all legislation in force has been issued under the authority of the Attorney-General; and

In the preparation of any annual volume, subject to the provisions of this

Ordinance, the Attorney-General shall have, mutatis mutandis, all the powers conferred upon the Commissioner appointed under the provision of the Revised Edition of the Laws

(Supplementary Volume) Ordinance, 1955 [Ord. 9/1955.].

It shall be lawful for the Attorney-General, if he thinks fit, to include in any annual volume a table of correction of grammatical, typographical and similar mistakes and omissions which may from time to time be discovered in the Revised Edition of the Laws

(including any supplementary or annual volume) and such laws shall thereupon be read and construed subject to such corrections.

Application of references.

Two copies of each annual volume prepared under the authority of this

Ordinance shall be dated and signed by the Attorney-General and by the Yang di-Pertua

Negeri and shall be sealed with the Public Seal of Sabah.

One of the said two copies shall be deposited amongst the records of the High

 Throughout the Ordinance “Yang di-Pertua Negeri” substituted for “Yang di-Pertua Negara” by virtue of

Enactment No. 17 of 1976.

Court and the other copy shall be deposited at the office of the State Secretary.†

Distribution of copies.

Copies of the annual volumes shall be distributed among such persons, officers, departments and institutions as the Yang di-Pertua Negeri may direct.

There shall be offered to the public such number of copies at such prices as the

Yang di-Pertua Negeri may direct.

Expenses of preparation and publication.