Preamble, An Act to Amend the Interpretation Act, 1961

Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 22nd day of LS No. 21 REEDOM S. A. BENKA-COKER. Acting (Governor-General. Sierra Leone An Act to Amend the Interpretation Act, 1961 A 175 BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and With the advice and consent of the House of Representatives in Lnis present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows Act No. 46 of 1961. [25th June, 1964.] Date of commencement. L. This Act may be cited as the Interpretation (Amendment) Short title. Act, 1964. Z. Section 9 of the Interpretation Act, 1961, is hereby Replacement repealed and replaced by the following new section of section 9 ofAct No. 46 of 1961. A 176 No, 21 "Acts of United Kingdom Parliament to be read with the necessary modifications. Interpretation (Amendment) M.P OPM 4/19 9. ) Whenever any Act of the United Kingdom or English Parliament applies in Sierra Leone it shall be read with such verbal alterations as to names. localities, courts, officers, persons, moneys and other wise as may be necessary to make the same applicab'e in the circunstances. (2) Whenever in any such Act (a) power is given to any person or authority to make rules thereunder, the power to make such rules may be exercised by the Governor-General; (b) power is given to impose a sentence of penal servitude for any offence there under, the Act shall (notwithstanding that it may expressly make provision for the imposition of another and shorter period of imprisonment) be deemed to give the court a poOwer to impose a sentence of imprisonment for any period not exceeding the maximum period of penal servitude provided by such Act; (c) the great or other seal is mentioned, the Act shall be read as though the corres ponding seal in use in Sierra Leone were substituted therefor but so that if no suitable seal is available the use of a seal shall not be obligatory.". Passed in the House of Representatives this 7th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me wiln the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.