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(4.) To alter the form or arrangement of any section of an Ordinance, either by combining it in whole or

in part with another sction or other sections or by dividing it into two or more sub-sections ; (5.) To divide any Ordinance, whether consolidated

or not, into parts or other divisions; (6.) To add a short title to any Ordinance which may require it, and, if necessary, to alter the short title of any Ordinanen; and

(7.) To do all other things rolating to form and method which may be necessary for the perfecting of the new edition.

6. There shall be attached to each Ordinance contained Numbering of

in the new edition a number showing its place among the Ordinances, Ordinances of the year to which it belongs.

7.-1.) The powers conferred upon the Commissioner Mode of in section 5 shall not be taken to imply any power in him dealing with to make any alteration or amendment in the matter or sub-i alteracions stance of any Ordinance or part of an Ordinance.

(2.) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (4.) of this section, in every case where any such alteration or amend- ment is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, desirable, the Commissioner shall draft a Bill setting forth such altera. tions and amendments and authorizing them to be made in the said new and revised edition, sad every such Bill shall, subject to the sanction of the Governor, be enraitted to the Legislative Council and be dealt with in the ordinary

way,

(3.) Any such Bill may have reference ta mors Ordinances than one, although such Ordinances may not be in pari materiâ.

(4) In any case where an Ordinance, whether consoli dated or not, requires such considerable alterations and amendments as to involve its entire recasting, the Commis sioner shall draft a Bill accordingly, and suela Bill shall be submitted to the Legislative Council and be dealt with in the ordinary way.

of substance,

8. The Commissioner shall prepare and cause to be Chronological printed together in a separate volume a chronological table table and of all the Statute Laws of the Colony, including those not edition,

index to new

in force, and a full and complete index to the Ordinances contained in the new edition.

9.-(1.) The Commissioner shall, with the approval of Frinting, etc., the Governor, make such arrangements as he may think of new expedient for the printing and binding of the new edition, edition.

(2.) The Governor shall give such directions as he may think fit with respect to the number of copies to be printed and the manner in which they shall be bound,

10.-(1) Ou the arrival of the copies of the new edition Bringing into in the Colony, the Governor shall cause each of the said fore of new copies to be impressed on the title-page thereof with the edition. Public Seal.

(2.) On some convenient day thereafter the Governor shall, by a Proclamation to be published in the Gazetto, notify that the copies of the new edition have been duly impressed as aforesaid, and are ready for issue at the Colo- nial Secretary's Office in Victoria,

11. At the expiration of six months after the publication Validity and of the said Proclamation, the new edition shall be laid operation of before the Legislative Council for approval, and, if so ap-

new edition, proved, shall be deemed to be, and stall be, without any question, in all Courts of Justice and for all other purposes whatsoever, the sole aal only rooper Statute Book of this Colony, up to the date of the latest of the Ontances con- tained therein: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any Ordinanes which may be passed, before such approval by the Legislative Council, for the repeal, alteration, or amendment of any earlier Ordinavee after such Ordinance has been already princed in the new edition.

12. Where, in any enactment or in any document of Construction whatever kind, reference is made to au onactment repealed of reference or otherwise affected by or under the operation of this Or-o repealed, dinance, such reference shall, where necessary and practio- ment.

etc., enact- able, be deemed to extond and apply to the corresponding enactment in the new edition.

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