Preamble, **The Law Reform Commission (Amendment) Act, 1981**

5 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.] 6 No. 3 *The Law Reform Commission (Amendment)* 1981 **2.** Subsection (3) of Section 1 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new sub-section— [Margin: Repeal and replacement of Section 1 (3) of Act No. 12 of 1975.]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.*