The Revised Edition Of The Laws Act 1964

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REVISED EDITION OF THE LAWS.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PREPARATION AND 42 of 1964.

PUBLICATION OF A REVISED EDITION OF THE LAWS S.I. 111 of 1965.

OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS.

[29th December 1964.1 [Commencement 29th December 1964.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Revised Edition short title.

   of the Laws Act 1964.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise Interpretation.

   requires'the Commissioners' means the Commissioners appointed under section 3 of this Act;

   'the 1929 Edition' means the revised edition of the laws of the Colony prepared by the late Honourable Harcourt Gladstone Malcolm, K.C., O.B.E., under the authority of The Statute Law Revised Edition Act, numbered 21 of 1921, as amended, that appears as Chapter 2 of the 1929 Edition;

   'the 1957 Edition' means the revised edition of the Statute Law of the Colony prepared by Commissioners under the authority of The Statute 1 of 1957.

   Law Revised Edition Act 1957;

   'Imperial Acts or Statutes' means Acts or Statutes of the Parliament of England, or of the Parliament of Great Britain, or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the expression 'Imperial Parliament' shall be construed accordingly;

   'Revised Edition of the Statute Law' means the revised edition of the Statute Law of the Colony in force on the first day of April 1965, to be prepared under the authority of this Act;

   'Revised Edition of Subsidiary Legislation' means the revised edition of proclamations, rules,

   Appointment of Commissioners.

   regulations, bye-laws, and other forms of subsidiary legislation of the Colony, in force on the first day of April 1965, (or such later date as may be fixed by the Governor by Order under section 12) to be prepared under the authority of this Act;

   'Supplement' means the Supplement to the Revised Edition of the Statute Law to be prepared under the authority of section 8 of this Act.

3. -(1) The Attorney General, the Honourable Eugene Aubrey Pyfrom Dupuch, C.B.E., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, the Honourable Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, Kt., C.B.E., Attorney-at-Law, and the Honourable George Donald Foster Clarke, Attorneyat-Law, the latter three named being all members of the Cabinet and of the House of Assembly of the Bahama Islands, are hereby appointed Commissioners for the purpose of securing the preparation of a Revised Edition of the Statute Law of the Colony and a Revised Edition of the Subsidiary Legislation of the Colony and the indexing and the making of arrangements for the printing and publication thereof.

   (2) In case the said Commissioners are or any of them is unable for any cause fully to discharge their or his duties under this Act, the Governor may appoint some other fit and proper persons or person to be Commissioners or a Commissioner in their or his stead.

   (3) The Commissioners may appoint Sir Ralph Hone, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., one of Her Majesty's Counsel, or such other person or persons as they think fit, to act on their behalf in the preparation of the Revised Edition of the Statute Law and the Revised Edition of Subsidiary Legislation.

4. -(1) For the purposes of the preparation of the Revised Edition of the Statute Law, the Commissioners shall have the following powers(a) to omit(i) all Acts or parts of Acts which have been expressly and specifically repealed or which have expired, or have become spent or have had their effect;

   (ii) all repealing enactments contained in Acts and also all tables and lists of re Powers of the Commissioners.

   3 pealed enactments, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise;

   (iii) all preambles to Acts where such omissions can in the opinion of the Commissioners conveniently be made;

   (iv) all enactments prescribing the date when an Act or part of an Act is to come into force, where such omission can in the opinion of the Commissioners conveniently be made;

   (v) all amending Acts or parts thereof where the amendments effected thereby have been embodied by the Commissioners in the Act to which they relate;

   (vi) all enacting clauses;

   (vii) all Acts, other than The Declaratory Act, extending Acts of the Imperial Parliament to the Colony; and (viii) any provision in any Act which provides that any proclamations, rules, regulations, byelaws or other forms of subsidiary legislation shall be read and construed with such adaptations and modifications as ate necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of such Act or any other Act which such Act amends;

   (b) to consolidate into one Act any two or more Acts in pari materia, making the alterations thereby rendered necessary and affixing such date thereto as may seem most convenient;

   (c) to alter the order of sections, subsections or paragraphs in any Acts and in all cases where it, may be necessary to do so to renumber the sections, subsections or paragraphs;

   (d) to alter the form or arrangement of any section, subsection or paragraph. by transferring words, by combining it in whole or in part with any other section, subsection or paragraph or by dividing it into two or more subsections or paragraphs;

   (e) to transfer any enactment contained in any Act from such Act to any other Act to which that enactment more properly belongs;

   (f) to divide Acts into parts or divisions;

   (g) to add a short title to any Act which may require it or to alter the short title of any Act;

   (h) to supply, alter or delete marginal notes, headings or sub-headings to sections of any Act;

   (i) to correct cross references, including references to the titles of any Acts that have been superseded or are otherwise in need of correction;

   (j) to shorten or simplify the phraseology of any Act;

   (k) to supply, alter or delete tables of contents of any Act;

   (1) to correct grammatical, typographical, and similar errors in the existing copies of Acts, and for that purpose to make verbal additions, omissions or alterations not affecting the meaning of any Act;

   (m) to make such adaptations of or amendments in any Acts as may appear to be necessary or proper as a consequence of constitutional changes in the Bahama Islands or any other country within the Commonwealth;

   (n) to make such formal alterations as to names, localities, officers and otherwise as may be necessary to bring any Act into conformity with the circumstances of the Colony; and (o) to do all things relating to form and method which may be necessary for the perfecting of the Revised Edition.

   (2) For the purposes of this section, any Order of the Governor made under section 4 of the Bahama Islands (Constitution) Order in Council, 1963, shall be deemed to be an Act.

   Omission of 5.-(1) In addition to the Acts omitted from the certain Acts from the 1929 Edition and the 1957 Edition, the Commissioners...