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Section 106: Legislative Power.
In force, as amendedThe Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1991, Sierra Leone
(1) The power of Parliament to make laws shall be exercised by Bills passed by Parliament and signed by the
President.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (8), a Bill shall not become law unless it has been duly passed and signed
in accordance with this Constitution.
(3) An Act signed by the President shall come into operation on the date of its publication in the Gazette or such
other date as may be prescribed therein or in any other enactment.
(4) When a Bill which has been duly passed and is signed by the President in accordance with the provisions of this
Constitution it shall become law and the President shall thereupon cause it to be published in the Gazette as law.
(5) No law made by Parliament shall come into operation until it has been published in the Gazette, but Parliament
may postpone the coming into operation of any such law and may make laws with retroactive effect.
(6) All laws made by Parliament shall be styled "Acts", and the words of enactment shall be "Enacted by the
President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled.”
(7) Where a Bill has been passed by Parliament but the President refuses to sign it, the President shall within fourteen
days of the presentation of the Bill for his signature cause the unsigned Bill to be returned to Parliament giving
reasons for his refusal.
(8) Where a Bill is returned to Parliament pursuant to subsection (7) and that Bill is thereafter passed by the votes of
not less than two-thirds of the Members of Parliament, it shall immediately become law and the Speaker shall
thereupon cause it to be published in the Gazette.
(9) Nothing in this section or in section 53 of this Constitution shall prevent Parliament from conferring on any
person or authority the power to make statutory instruments.
Minister may introduce
Bill and be summoned
to Parliament.
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