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SIGNED this *9th* day of *June, 1981.*
SIAKA STEVENS,
*President.*
(L.S.)
No. 3 1981
Sierra Leone
**The Law Reform Commission (Amendment) Act, 1981**
[Margin: Short title.]
**Being an Act to amend the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 in order to extend the qualifications for appointment to the Law Reform Commission**
[*2nd October, 1975.*]
[Margin: Date of commencement.]
BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:—
**1.** This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 2nd day of October, 1975.
[Margin: commencement.]
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**2.** Subsection (3) of Section 1 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new sub-section—
[Margin: Repeal and replacement of Section 1 (3) of Act No. 12 of 1975.]
"(3) Any person appointed to be Commissioner shall be a Sierra Leonean who appears to the President, upon the recommendation of the Attorney-General, to be suitably qualified:
(*a*) by the holding of judicial office, or
(*b*) by having not less than seven years experience either as a barrister or solicitor, or
(*c*) as a teacher of law in a University, or
(*d*) by reason of his special qualifications, training or experience in civic or other matters."
Passed in Parliament this *8th* day of *April*, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one.
J. W. E. DAVIES,
*Clerk of Parliament.*
THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
J. W. E. DAVIES,
*Clerk of Parliament.*