Section 2, (Ratification) Act, 1981

The Agreement set out in the Schedule hereto is herebyratified and conirmed and all rights and obligations purported to be conirmed or imposed lereby are declared vaiid any 1aw to the contrary notwithstanding, and notwithstading anything in any law contained, the Minister assigned with the responsibility for matters relating to Mines or any other person shall have power to do on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone any act which the aforesaid Agreement may require or allow in the name of the said Minister or of the Government of Sierra Leone : Provided, however, that, in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this Act and the provisions of the Principal Act,the provisions of this Act shall, to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, prevail over the provisions of the Principal Act.