Preamble, Public Notice No.22

PUBLIC NOTICE *Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Extraordinary Vol. CXVI, No. 59* *dated 22nd August, 1985* PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 22 OF 1985 *Published 22nd August, 1985* PROCLAMATION *By the Honourable Omaru Bun Remie Tejan, Acting Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone and Returning Officer for the election of a President.* (LS) O. B. R. TEJAN *Acting Chief Justice and Returning Officer* WHEREAS it is provided by section 23 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1978 (Act No. 12 of 1978) and section 4 of the Presidential Elections Act, 1985 (Act No. 1 of 1985) that an election shall take place when the office of President of the Republic of Sierra Leone becomes vacant; AND WHEREAS it is provided by section 9 of the Presidential Elections Act, 1985 that the Returning Officer shall, by Proclamation published in the *Gazette*, declare the occurrence of any vacancy in the office of President, in the case of a vacancy occurring by effluxion of time, within the first two months of the last four months of the term of the President in respect of the expiry of whose term of office the vacancy occurs; AND WHEREAS the office of President shall become vacant by effluxion of time on the 14th day of December, 1985; AND WHEREAS under section 24 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1978 and section 7 of the Presidential Elections Act, 1985 it is provided that the Chief Justice shall be the Returning Officer for the election of a President; NOW, THEREFORE, I, OMARU BUN REMIE TEJAN, Acting Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone and Returning Officer for the election of a President of Sierra Leone, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM that the office of President of the Republic of Sierra Leone shall become vacant on the 14th day of December, 1985. *Given under my hand and seal at the Law Courts, this 15th day of August, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-five.* LONG LIVE THE STATE OF SIERRA LEONE ! PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE *GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY* NO. 59 OF 22ND AUGUST, 1985