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Attorney General
Legal Officers.
7. (1) The Attorney General may, subject to any special instructions of the Governor, authorize any legal officer to exercise and discharge any of the rights and duties vested in or imposed on the Attorney General.
(2) The enactments to which this section applies are-
(a) any enactment passed before the commencement of this Ordinance; and
(b) any enactment passed after the commencement of this Ordinance which does not expressly provide that this section shall not apply thereto.
8. (1) Wherever in any enactment to which this section applies the expression "Attorney General" occurs the Solicitor General shall also be intended: Provided that save where the Attorney General is absent or unable to act the Solicitor General shall exercise and discharge such only of the rights and duties required to be exercised and discharged by the Attorney General as the Attorney General may, subject to the instructions of the Governor, assign to him. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require the production of any evidence that an assignment of rights or duties has in fact been made.
(2) The enactments to which this section applies are-
(a) any enactment passed before the commencement of this Ordinance; and
(b) any enactment passed after the commencement of this Ordinance which does not expressly provide that this section shall not apply thereto; and
(c) the enactments contained in this Ordinance other than the proviso to subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Where provision has been made to the like or similar effect as is contained in subsection (1) by any enactment passed before the commencement of this Ordinance or where any such enactment enables the Solicitor General to exercise in whole or in part or in certain circumstances any right or duty to be exercised or discharged by the Attorney General.
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