CO129-592-16 Future policy- interpretation proclamation 1-8-1945 - 31-8-1945 — Page 24

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Transfer of

powers

Application

of the Straits Settlements Interpretation Ordinance,

-3.

3. (1) In this section "Luthority" means any person or body of persons appointed or authorised under any written law to exercise authority or powers or perform duties thereunder.

(2) No authority shall be entitled to exercise powers or perform duties under any written law unless he shall have been thereunto authorised by or under the authority of the Goneral Officer Commanding Military Forces, Malaya, or the Chief Civil Affairs Officer.

(3) Subject to the provisions of any Proclemation and to any orders or directions of the General Officer Commanding Military Forces, Malaya or of the Chief Civil Affairs Officer

(a) Lny officer of the Civil Affairs Service who is

for the time being required by or under the authority of the General Officer Commanding Military Forces, Malaya, or by or under the authority of the Chief Civil Affairs Officer to perform any functions previously performed by an Luthority under any written law shall be deemed to have and may exercise any rights and powers conferred by that written law upon such Authority which may be necessary to enable such Civil Affairs Officer to perform such functions;

(b) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,

the rights and powers which by any written law are vested in or conferred upon any Luthority mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to this Proclamation, shall be deemed to be vested in or conferred upon the corresponding officer or officers respectively mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule subject however to any restrictions or modifications mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be taken to impose upon any officer an obligation to perform any duty which arose prior to the promulgation of this Proclamation in the area concerned, or which arises under any written law or part thereof which, for the time being, is not being administered in the area concerned.

(4)

The Chief Civil Affairs Officer may, by notification in the Gazette, from time to time add to,

by notice or alter or amend the provisions of the said Schedule.

4. The provisions of the Interpretation Ordinance of the Straits Settlements shall apply mutatis mutandis to Proclamations.

Effective

dates of

5.

etc.

Proclamations,

Every Proclimation and every rule, order or regulation made under a Proclamation shall become operative from the date of its promulgation in each part of the Settlement of Singapore which comes under the control of the Forces under the command of the Supreme llied Commander, or on such later date as may be specified therein.