Schedule., The Ordinances Authentication Ordinance

CHAPTER 3. ORDINANCES AUTHENTICATION. An Ordinance to Make Provision for the Authentication and Recording of Ordinances. [26TH JUNE, 1930.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ordinances Authentication Ordinance. 2. (I) Every Ordinance to be enacted for the Colony or Protectorate or for both the Colony and Protectorate shall, when passed by the House of Representatives, be immediately set up in fair and legible type by the Government Printer, and an impression in quintuplicate from the type so set up, on vellum or on paper of an enduring quality, shall be struck off by him. (2) Such printed impression shall be carefully compared by the Clerk of the House of Representatives with the Bill which has passed such House, and on being found by him to be true and correct, he shall authenticate such printed copies of such Bill in the manner set forth in form A in the schedule. Ordinances Authentication [Cap. 3 3. (I) When the Governor shall have assented to any Bill passed by the House of Representatives, he shall record his assent on the authenticated printed copies thereof in the manner set forth in form B in the schedule and shall affix the Public Seal of the Colony thereto. (2) The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall also inscribe on such copies, within brackets immediately after the title of the Ordinance, the date of its commencement: Provided that where, under the provisions of the Ordinance, the date of the commencement is to be fixed at some future time, the space within brackets as aforesaid shall be left blank. 2I Recording of Governor's assent. Date of commencement. (3) Of such copies one shall be deposited with the Deputy Depos~ting Governor, one with the Chief Justice, one with the Clerk of the of copies. House of Representatives and two shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State. 4. Every Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette and shall ~blication ff fr h · . f h d d' h d m Gazette.take e ect om t e expnatwn o t e ay prece mg t e ate of such publication, unless it be otherwise provided in the Ordinance. 5. The copies of every Ordinance promulgated in the first Copies instance shall be impressions from the same form as the de- f:fir:gated posited copies, but on further copies of any Ordinance being instance. printed the date of commencement thereof, if it has been fixed subsequently to the printing of the deposited copies, shall be inscribed thereon in the space within brackets as aforesaid. 6. (I) Upon the notification of allowance or disallowance of Efndnorsement 0 d. b . . d h D G h ll o a owance any r mance emg receive , t e eputy overnor s a or disendorse or cause to be endorsed upon the copy of the Ordinance allowance. deposited with him a note of the fact of such allowance or disallowance, together with a reference to the Secretary of State's despatch to that effect, and shall sign such endorsement and shall send a copy thereof to the Chief Justice for endorsement upon the copy of the Ordinance deposited with him. (2) Notice of such allowance or disallowance shall be published No:ice there- . th G G d h bli · 1 b · of m Gazettem e overnment azette, an sue pu catiOn shal e pnma to be prima facie evidence of such allowance or disallowance. facie evidence. 7. (I) When a bill has been reserved for the signification of Bills H M · t ' l h h 11 b h · d reservedforer a]eS y s p easure, t e same s a e aut entiCate as signification provided in section 2 and copies thereof deposited with the of Her Deputy Governor, the Chief Justice and the Clerk of the House ~:!~~.s of Representatives as provided by section 3 (3). Her Majesty's assent to be published by proclamation. Endorsement of Her Majesty's assent. Cap. 3] Ordinances Authentication (2) A proclamation notifying Her Majesty's assent to any such Bill shall be published in the Gazette, and such publication shall be prima facie evidence of such assent. (3) Her Majesty's assent to any such Bill, together with the date of publication thereof, shall be endorsed upon the copies deposited with the Deputy Governor and Chief Justice in the same way as is provided by section 6 (1) in regard to Her Majesty's allowance or disallowance of an Ordinance.