Revised Edition Laws Supplementary Volume Ordinance 1955

John Maxwell Hall, Barrister-at-Law, is hereby appointed the Commissioner who shall prepare a supplementary volume to the Revised Edition of the Laws, comprising the

Ordinances and subsidiary legislation enacted between the first day of July, 1953 and the thirty-first day of December, 1954, and in force on the latter date.

In case the Commissioner shall from any cause be unable fully to discharge his commission under this Ordinance, the Governor may appoint some other fit and proper person or persons to be Commissioner or Commissioners in his stead.

Powers of commissioner.

To omit –

To consolidate into one Ordinance any two or more Ordinances in pari materia making the alterations thereby rendered necessary and affixing such date thereto as may seem most convenient;

To alter the order of sections in any Ordinances, and in all cases where it may be necessary to do so, to re-number the sections;

To alter the form or arrangement or arrangements of any section by transposing words, by combining it in whole or in part with another section or other sections or by dividing it into two or more subsections;

To alter the short title of any Ordinance;

To correct grammatical, typographical and similar mistakes in the existing copies of Ordinances, and for that purpose to make verbal additions, omissions or alterations not affecting the meaning of any Ordinance;

To supply or alter any index to sections, table of contents or marginal notes;

To correct cross references and to adapt all references and to make any amendment necessary to effect conformity with the Revised Edition;

To do all things necessary for the perfecting of the supplementary volume as part of the Revised Edition.

Commissioner not to alter substance.

The supplementary volume shall contain –

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The supplementary volume may, in the discretion of the Commissioner, also contain a reprint of such Act of Parliament, Orders in Council, Letters Patent, Royal

Instructions, and other instruments which shall have come into force between the first day of

July, 1953, and the thirty-first day of December, 1954, or which are in force on the latter date, and also the whole or any part of any Ordinance,. Act of Parliament, Order in Council, Letters

Patent, subsidiary legislation or other instrument enacted prior to the thirty-first day of

December, 1954, which has not yet been brought into force or which may for any reason have been omitted from the Revised Edition.

Subsidiary legislation.

Two copies of the supplementary volume shall be signed by the Commissioner or Commissioners and by the Governor and shall be sealed with the Public Seal of the

Colony.

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

Supreme Court and the other copy shall be deposited at the office of the Chief Secretary.

Distribution of copies of supplementary volume.

Copies of the supplementary volume shall be distributed among such persons, officers, departments and institutions as the Governor may direct.

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

Governor may direct.

Expenses of preparation and publication.