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“(1) If the Federal Assembly by resolution directs that any Federal law shall be laid upc such laweshalbe go ahe table of each Territorial Legislature,
as soon as is practicate thereafter:
Provided that no resolution shall be passed in pursuance of this subsection later than one month after the date of enactment of the law to which it relates.
(2) At any time within a period of six months after a Federal law has been laid on the table of a Territorial Legislature in pur- suance of subsection (1) of this section (which period is hereinafter referred to as "the prescribed period") such Legislature may by resolution declare that it is not satisfied that the law relates only to Federal matters.
(3) If-
(a) a Federal law has been laid on the table of each Territorial Legislature in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section; and
(b) no Territorial Legislature has, within the prescribed period, made in respect of that law such a declaration as is referred to in subsection (2) of this section,
then (except in any proceedings which have already been commenced) the validity of that law shall not be questioned in any court on the ground that the law relates to matters other than Federal matters.
(4) (a) In this section the expression "Federal matters" used in relation to a Federal law means matters with respect to which the Federal Legislature had authority to legislate at the time when such law was enacted.
(b) For the purposes of this section the date of enactment of a law shall be the date on which such law is assented to."
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5. (1) The provisions of the Constitution will be subject to amend- Amendment ment by Federal law: Provided that a Bill for the amendment of the of Constitution (hereinafter referred to as a constitutional Bill")—
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(a) will require to be passed by a two-thirds majority of the total membership of the Federal Assembly excluding the Speaker; and
(b) will not be assented to by the Governor-General but will be reserved by him for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure. (2) Her Majesty's assent to a constitutional Bill will be required to be signified by Order in Council-
(a) if any Territorial Legislature by resolution objects to the Bill or to any provision thereof within sixty days after the Bill has been passed by the Federal Assembly; or
(b) if, under Chapter V, a notice of objection to the Bill by the African Affairs Board is laid before the Governor-General at the time when the Bill is presented to him for the Royal assent. (3) No draft of an Order in Council signifying Her Majesty's assent to a constitutional Bill will be presented to Her Majesty unless-
(a) a copy of the draft has been laid before both Houses of
Parliament; and
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