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3.
"Where the context otherwise requires of any
provision in any contract, deed, or other
instrument referring expressly or impliedly,
and in whatever form of words, to the
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present war, or the present hostilities".
There is also a proviso (based on the proviso in section 1
of the Home Act) to the effect that "in the case of any Ordinance,
Proclamation, or Order issued by the Governor, conferring powers
on any Government Department or on any Public officer exerciseable
during the continuance of the present war, if it appears to the
Governor that it is expedient that the powers shall cease before
the date so fixed as aforesaid, the Governor in Council may fix
some earlier date for the termination of those powera.
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4. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency
the Officer Administering the Government may properly assent in
the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.
E. Porcod
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Attorney General.