CO129-590-21 Government funds- temporary provisions 23-12-1941 - 4-12-1942 — Page 116

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Modification

tments.

of en

Amendment of Schedule.

interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2.

So long as this Order remains in force,

(1) the provisions of the Emergency Powers

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(Defence) Act, 1939, which by the Emergency

Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council,

1939, and the Emergency Powers (Colonial

Defence) (Amendment) Order in Council,1940,

were extended to the territories mentioned in

the Second Schedule to the first mentioned

Order subject to the adaptations and

modifications contained in the First Schedule

thereto shall apply to the Colony subject

also to the further modification that the

powers thereby conferred upon the Governor

shall be regarded as having been transferred

to, and shall be exercisable by, the

Secretary of State;

(2) all rights, powers and control exercisable

by the Governor, the Governor in Executive

Council, or any officer or authority of the

Government of the Colony by or under any

enactment shall be regarded as having been

transferred to, and shall be exercisable by,

the Secretary of State;

(3) the enactments mentioned in column 1 of the

Schedule to this Order shall have effect

subject to the modifications set out in column

2 of the said Schedule.

3. (1) It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State

by Order under his hand to amend the Schedule to this

Order or to add any enactment and modification thereof

to that Schedule; and as from the date upon which any

such Order of the Secretary of State comes into

operation, paragraph (3) of Section 2 of this Order

shall have effect subject to the amendments so made

or shall have effect as respects the enactments and

modifications

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