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months ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December;

(6) in the form of a separate booklet, any new Ordinance enacted during the said period, other than Ordinances the sole or substantial effect of which was to amend other Ordinances;

(c) in the form of a booklet, either separately or together with any other such enactment or instrument, a new revised edition of any imperial enactment, treaty or convention already included in the revised edition which has been amended during the said period;

(d) booklets containing such imperial enact- ments, treaties or conventions enacted, made or agreed to during the said period as he considers may usefully be published; and (e) a new table of contents and index to the revised edition, a chronological list of Ordinances, a list of appointments and a list of the latest edition of each booklet containing an Ordinance and included in the revised edition.

(2) The Attorney General shall not be required by subsection (1) to prepare and publish a booklet containing a new revised edition of any Ordinance. imperial enactment, treaty or convention which has been amended if he considers that the amendments are not sufficiently extensive to justify the prepara- tion and publication thereof, but he shall cause a separate booklet of minor amendments to be prepared and published in which all such amendments shall be contained.

(3) Without prejudice to subsection (1), the Attorney General may, as soon as practicable after the first day of January in every year, cause to be published, in the form of a separate booklet-

(a) a new revised edition of any Ordinance which has not been amended during the period of twelve months ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December;

(b) a new revised edition of the subsidiary legislation made under or by virtue of any

Additional power to revise.

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and duties of Attomey General.

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Ordinance, whether or not any part of that subsidiary legislation has been amended during the period of twelve months ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December. (4) Where the Attorney General is of the opinion that it is desirable that corrections, altera- tions or adaptations shall be made to any Ordinance but that such corrections, alterations or adaptations are not sufficiently extensive to justify the prepara- tion and publication of a new revised edition of such Ordinance, he may, in relation to such Ordinance, exercise any of the powers contained in paragraphs (8), (a), (p), (q) and (?) of section 5 and include any corrections, alterations or adaptations occasioned thereby in the booklet of minor amendments prepared and published under subsection (2).

134. (1) Without prejudice to the powers conferred by section 13. the Attorney General may also---

(a) consolidate into one Ordinance any two or

more Ordinances in pari mareria,

(b) divide any Ordinance into two or more

Ordinances; or

(c) transfer to subsidiary legislation any part of an Ordinance which can more conveni- ently be included as subsidiary legislation under that Ordinance or under any other Ordinance.

(2) Where the Attorney General has exercised the powers conferred by subsection (1), he shall, as soon as practicable after the first day of January in the year following such exercise, cause to be published in the form of a separate booklet-

(a) any Ordinance into which two or more

Ordinances have been consolidated;

(b) each Ordinance into which any Ordinance

has been divided; and

(c) the subsidiary legislation into which any part of an Ordinance has been transferred.

13B. (1) For the purposes of sections 13 and 13A, the Attorney General may exercise and per- form, mutatis mutandis, the powers and duties con- ferred or imposed by this Ordinance upon the Commissioner.