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Revised Edition of the Laws.
[1971 Ed.
Bringing of revised edition into operation.
Complementary matter in revised edition.
Annual revision
of revised edition.
11. (1) The Governor may, by Proclamation, approve the revised edition and order that the revised edition shall come into operation on such date as he may specify in such Proclamation.
(2) From the effective date the revised edition shall be deemed to be and shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper laws of the Colony in respect of all Ordinances contained therein.
12. (1) The revised edition may also contain a reprint of such imperial enactments, treaties and conventions and such indices, notes and references as the commissioner considers useful to include.
(2) When any imperial enactment, treaty or convention is reprinted in pursuance of subsection (1), the provisions of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with such amendments as may have been made thereto, and where any imperial enactment, treaty or convention has been applied or extended to the Colony with modifications the provisions of that imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with those modifications:
Provided that every departure from the original text of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention shall be clearly shown by notes, references or other similar means.
(3) The commissioner may also cause the reprint referred to in subsection (1) to be published in such number of separate book- lets, in the manner prescribed by section 8, or in such other form as he considers convenient.
13. (1) As soon as practicable after the first day of January in every year the Attorney General shall, subject to subsection (2), cause to be published—
(a) in the form of a separate booklet, a new revised edition of any Ordinance which has been amended during the period of twelve months ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December;
(b) 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 con- vention already included in the revised edition which has been amended during the said period;
* The revised edition was approved and brought into operation on 1st Feb-
ruary 1967 by Proclamation No. 2 of 1967 (L.N. 4/67).
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