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(6.) Such originals and the Ordinances contained in the Revised Edition shall be proved by certi- fied copies thereof, or, by order of a judge, by the production thereof by the Registrar. Subject however to objection being taken any such original or any Ordinance contained in the Revised Edition may be proved by the production of a copy of the Gazette or of a copy of any collection of Ordinances, pur- porting to be printed by the Government Printers, containing a copy of such original or by the production of a volume of the Revised Edition, purporting to be impressed on the title page thereof with the seal of the Colony, containing such Ordinance.

(7.) Any person shall be entitled to inspect any such originals or the copy of the Revised Edition preserved by the Registrar of the Supreme Court as aforesaid during the office hours of the Registry on payment of twenty-five cents for each inspection not exceeding three hours, and to take copies or extracts there- from for certification by the Registrar, on payment of twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-five words for each copy or extract.

10.-(1.) The Statute Laws (Revised Edition) Ordin- Repeal of

ance, 1900, is repealed.

(2.) This section shall come into force at the same time as the proclamation referred to in section 8.

Ordinance No. 12 of

1900 from date of pro- clamation of New Revised Edition.

11. From and after the date of such proclamation the Validity and New Revised Edition shall be deemed to be, operation of

New Revised and shall be, without any question, in all

Edition, Courts of Justice and for all other purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper Statute Book of the Colony up to the date of the latest of the Ordinances contained therein. From and after the said date in so far as there may be variances between the Ordiu- ances contained in the New Revised Edi- tion and the Ordinances contained in the Revised Edition or between the New Revised Edition and the originals preserved by the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ordin- ances passed during the period between the commencement of the year 1902 and the end of the year of 1911 the Ordinances contained in the Revised Edition aud the Ordinances passed during the said period shall be deemed to have been amended by and such variations shall be deemed to have been authorised by this Ordinance :

Provided that nothing in this section shall effect the operation of any Ordinance which may be passed, before the issue of such pro- clamation, for the repeal, alteration or amend- ment of any earlier Ordinance after such Ordinance has been printed in the Revised Edition."

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Objects and Rensons.

When Ordinance No. 19 of 1911, which was drafted by the Editor now engaged in the preparation of the New Revised Edition of the Ordinances, was passed it was in- tended to make that edition the statute book for general use, in much the same way as the Law Reports Statute or the Revised Statutes are in general use in England; but it was not intended to make the edition incapable of challenge. It is true that Ordinance No. 12 of 1900 made the Revised Edition the sole and only proper statute book of the Colony but an enactment to that effect was absolutely necessary in the case of the Carrington edition because the Editor of that edition used the powers conferred by Ordinance No. 12 of 1900 to their full extent and that Ordinance was not followed by a series of Special Revision Ordinances author-

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