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"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.