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Repeal of Ordinance

No. 7 of 1915

from date appointed by Governor in Council.

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Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the previous operation of any regulation so deemed to have been repealed, or anything duly done or suffered under any such regulation, or any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any such regu- lation, or any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any such regula- tion, or any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid:

Provided also that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any regulation which may be made after the 31st day of December, 1925.

7. From and after the date appointed by the Governor in Council under section 6, the Regulations Ordinance, 1915, shall be deemed repealed.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this bill is to authorise the preparation of a new edition of the regulations in force in the Colony at the end of 1925.

2. The bill takes the usual form of enabling bills of its kind, and inter alia-

(1) saves certain other forms of legislation (clause 3); (2) provides the necessary power for appointment of

an editor (clause 4);

(3) assigns certain powers to the elitor (clause 5); (4) provides for the validity and operation of the

new edition (clause 6).

3. Attention is directed to clause 5 (1) of the bill, in which the editor is given power to omit certain “regula- tions" from the edition, which it is thought unnecessary to reprint at the present time. In particular, Schedules to Ordinances which have lately been revised and reprinted in the recent edition of the Ordinances of the Colony will be omitted, partly to save expense and partly to avoid con- fusion. It is at the same time enacted in a proviso to clause 5 (1) that the omission from the edition of the specified "regulations" shall not affect their validity and operation, and they do not therefore fall under clause 6 (2), which provides that any regulation omitted from the edition is to be deemed repealed.

1. Clause 7 enucts that the Regulations Ordinance, 1915, which authorised the preparation of the present edition, is to be deemed repealed from the date which the Governor in Council may appoint for the coming into operation of the new edition.

15th January, 1926.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

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