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3 (1) John Bowes Griffin, .C., Attorney General, George Edward Strickland, Solicitor General, Henrique Alberto de Barros Botelho, Assistant Crown Solicitor, and ́Edward Hardwicke Sainsbury, Assistant Crown Solicitor, are hereby appointed Com- 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 falls below two, the Governor may appoint some other fit and proper persons not exceeding two to be Commissioners in the stead of the Commissioners who are al
absent or unable to act.
4. In the preparation of the revised edition of Ordinancea 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of Ordinances Military Proclamations or parts of Military Proclamations which have been expressly and specifically repealed or which have expired, or have become spent or have had their effect;
_(b) all repealing enactments contained in Ordinances or Military Proclamations and also all tables and lists of repealed enactments, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise;
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(c) all enactments prescribing the date when Ordinance or part of an Ordinance or Military Proclamation or part of a Military Proclamation is to come into operation, where such omissina 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 clausas;
(A) any parts of an Ordinance or Military Proclamu- tion which can more conveniently be included as 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 number of Ordinances and Military Proclamations in pari materia, making 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 do;
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(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 Ordinanco 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-
(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;
notes;
(10) to supply or alter tables of contenta and marginal
(11) to correct grammatical, typographical, 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 bares, lonalities, departments, offices and officers and otherwise as way be necessary to bring any Ordinances or Military Proclamatione into conformity with the circumstances of the Colony;
(13) to recast in the form of au Ordinauce, making the alterutions thereby rendered necessary, any Military Proclamation or part thereof which is still in force and which cannot be more conveniently dealt with under the foregoing powers or under sectiou 0;
(14) to do all things relating to form 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 Ordinuorea 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 yoțit the same from the shall have been expressly repealed or shall have expired or become edition. 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 - UB- to Legislative Council in the form of one or more Ordinances. authorised (2) If auch Ordinance or Ordinances are enacted prior section 4. 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, amendoiente or additions as if they had been authorised by section 4, and