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3. (1) John Bowes Griffin, x.c.. Attorney General, George Edward Strickland, Solicitor General, Henrique Alberto de Barros Botelho, Assistant Crown Solicitor, and ́Edward Hardwicks Sainsbury, Assistant Crown Solicitor, are hereby appointed Coma- missioners who shall prepare a revised edition of Ordinances and a revised edition of subsidiary legislation in the Colony.
(2) If the auraber of Commissioners present at one time in the Colony and able to act falle below two, the Governor way appoint some other fit and proper persons not exceeding two to be Commissioners in the stead of the Commissioners who are absent or unable to act.
4. In the preparution of the revised edition of Ordinances the Commissioners shall have power-
(1) to omit-
(a) all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances Military Proclamations or parts of Military Proclamations which have been expressly and specifically repealed or which bare expired, or have become spent or have had their effect;
(b) all repealing enactments contained in Ordinances or Military Proclamations and also all tables and lists of repealed enactments, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise;
(c) all enactments prescribing the date when an Ordinuace or part of an Ordinance or Military Proclamation or part of a Military Proclamation is to come into operation, where such omission can in the opinion of the Commissioners conveniently be made;
(d) all amending Ordinances or Military Proclama- tions or parts thereof where the amendments effected thereby have been embodied by the Commissioners in the Ordinance to which they relate;
(e) all enacting clauses;
(A) any parts of an Ordinance or Military Proclama- tion which can more conveniently be included aa rules, regulations or by-laws made under the Ordinance or under any other Ordinance; (2) to adopt a convenient atandard form în all Ordinances
(a) the interpretation section;
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(b) any peual section;
(c) any section giving power to make rules, regula-
tions or by-laws;
(3) to consolidate into one Ordinance any two or more Ordinances or two or more Military Proclamations or any numbar of Ordinances and Military Proclamations in pari materia, muking the alterations thereby rendered necessary and affixing such date thereto as may seem most convenient;
(4) to alter the order of sections in any Ordinances; (5) to renumber the sections in any Ordinance in all cases where it may be necessary so to de;
(0) to alter the form or arrangement of any section, transferring words, by combining it in whole or in part with another section or other sections or by dividing it into two or more sub-sections;
(7) to transfer any enactment contained in an Ordinance or Military Proclamation from such Ordinance or Military Pro- clamation to any other Ordinance to which that enactment more properly belongs, making the alterations thereby rendered neces-
sary
(8) to divide Ordinances into parts or divisions; (9) to add a short title to any Ordinance which may require it or to alter the short title of any Ordinance;
(10) to supply or alter tables of contents and marginal zotes;
(11) to correct grammnatics), Lypographical, and similar errors in the existing copias of Ordinances or Military Proclama- tions and for that purpose to make verbal additions, omissions, or alterations not affecting the meaning of any Ordinance or Military Proclamation:
(12) to make such formal alterations as to bames, localities, departments, offices and officers and otherwise as way be necessary to bring any Ordinances or Military Proclaminticna into conformity with the circumstances of the Colony;
(13)_to_recast in the form of an Ordinauce, making the alteration thereby rendered necessary, any Military Proclamatiou or part thereof which is still in force and which cuonot be more conveniently dealt with under the foregoing powers or under sectivu 0;
(14) to do all things relating to forms and method which may be necessary for the perfecting of the revised edition.
5, (1) The Commissioners shall omit from the revised edition Omission of of Ordinances the Ordinances specified in the First Schedule: certain Provided that, anything in this Ordinance to the contrary notwith-dinances standing the said Ordinances shall remain in force until the asme from the shall have been expressly repealed or shall have expired or become revised
spent or had their effect.
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(2) At any time before the revised edition of Ordinances Scheduk. is approved in purauance of section 7, the Governor may by proclamation make any amendment to the First Schedule.
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8. (1) If the Commissioners consider that it is desirable Mode of that in the preparation of the revised edition of Ordinances there dealing with should be omissions, amendments or additions other than those amendmenu, authorised by section 4, the same may be collected and submitted - to Legislative Council in the form of one or more Ordinances. authorised (2) If such Ordinance or Ordinances are enacted prior to the passing of the resolution mentioned in section 7, then-
(a) the Commissioners shall in the preparation of the revised edition give the like effect to such omissions, amen dutente or additions as if they had been authorised by section 4, and
section 4.