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thereof and to be the law, and may be proved in any Court or judicial proceeding by certified copies thereof, or, by order of a Judge, by the production thereof by the Registrar. Subject [only to the foregoing provision] however to objection being taken any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this Ordinance [shall be suff- ciently] may be proved by the production of a copy of the Gazette containing the print of snch Ordinance as passed by the Legislative Council, or a copy thereof purporting to be printed by the Government Printer [at or about the time of the passing thereof.
[8.) The provisions of the preceding sub-section shall apply to all proclamations issued and to all rules, orders, regulations, or bye-laws heretofore or hereafter male in virtue of any Ordinance, now in force or hereafter to be passed.]
[(4.) The Registrar shall carefully preserve and file all such Orainances, proclamations, rules, orders, regulations or bye-laws so transmitted to him.]
[(5.)] (6.) Any person shall be entitled to inspect such sealed copies [Ordinauces and other documents aforesaid] during the office hours of the Registry on payment of twenty-five cents for each inspection not exceeding three hours, and to take copies or extracts therefrom for certi- fication by the Registrar, on payment of twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-five words for each copy of extract.
10.-(1.) Ordinance No. 12 of 1900 (The Statute Law Validation (Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1900) is repealed.
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(2.) The Revised Edition, so far as Ordinances (contained Revised in it] passed up to the end of 1901 are concerned, is here- Edition and by declared to have been the true and only version of sealed those Ordinances, all variances between such Ordinances copies, as printed therein and the sealed copies thereof deposited in the Registry under Ordinance No. 1 of 1887] 16 of 1886, and anything in Ordinance No. [1 of 1887] 16 of 1886 to the contrary notwithstanding; and in so far as there are such variances the Ordinances as contained in such sealed copies are to be taken to be and to have been repealed by Ordinance No. 12 of 1900.
(3.) This section shall come into force at the same time as the [New Revised Edition) proclamation referred to in section 8.
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11. From and after the date of [the] such proclamation New Edi- [referred to in section 6 (4)] the Revised Edition shall tion author- cease to be the sole and only proper] statute book of the aed to be Colony up to the date of the latest of the Ordinances con- Courts, and tained therein, and subject only to the provisions of for all pur- section 9, it shall be lawful to use the New Revised poses. Edition in all Courts of Justice and for all purposes what- soever as being the authorised statute book of the Colony in regard to all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council up to the end of the year 1911; Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any Ordinance which may be passed, before the issue of such proclamation, for the repeal, alteration or amendment of any earlier Ordinance after such Ordinance has been printed in the new Revised Edition.
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12. Where is any existing enactment or in any exist- Construction ing docnment of whatever kind, reference is made to of references an Ordinance which is affected by or under the operation to former of this Ordinance, such reference shall, where necessary Ordinances. and practicable, be deemed to extend and apply to the corresponding enactment as contained the New Revised Edition.