(b)
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Her Majesty.
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making provision, until the vacancy in the Chieftainship is filled, for enabling any person or persons to exercise all or any of the powers and perform all or any of the duties attaching to the Chieftainship of the Tribe, and for designating any person, or for enabling any person to be designated, as the person entitled to summon the Tribe in Kgotla for any purpose and to preside or to exercise any of the functions of the president at any Kgotla, and for the general administration of the Reserve;
(c) The restoration of tribal unity;
(1) Her Majesty reserves to Herself, Her Heirs and Successors power, with the advice of Her or Their Privy Council, to amend, add to or revoke this Order as to Her or Them shall seem fit.
(2) Nothing in this Order shall affect the power of Her Majesty in Council to make laws from time to time for the peace, order and good government of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
5. This Order may be cited as the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Bamangwato Succession) Order in Council, 1952, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the High Commissioner and notified in the Official Gazette of the High Commissioner, which day shall not be earlier than the day after the day on which this Order shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
Explanatory Note
(This Note is not part of the Order, but is intended to indicate its general purport).
This Order in Council, made under the Foreign
Jurisdiction Act, 1890, is designed to carry out three purposes. The first purpose is the extinguishment of any present or future right of Seretse Khama or Tshekedi Khama or their children to beChief of the Bamangwato Tribe of the Bechuanaland Protectorate or to perform certain other specified functions in relation to the Tribe. The second purpose is to provide for the de signation by the Tribe, subject to recognition and confirmation as required by law, of a Chief other than Seretse Khama or Tshekedi Khama. The third purpose is to provide for the administration of tribal affairs pending such designation, recognition and confirmation.
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