This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Amendment) and(No. 2) Act, 1962, and shall be deemed to hav çome into operation commence

Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 17th day of March, 1962. (LS No. 12 MAURICE H. DORMAN, REEDOMECE Sierra Leone Governor-General. An Act to Provide for the Amendment of Certain Sections of the Constitution Be IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and withthe advice and consent of the House of Representatives in this presentParliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: (27th April, 1961.] Date of commencement. Short title This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Amendment) and(No. 2) Act, 1962, and shall be deemed to hav çome into operation commence on the 27th day of April, 1961, ment, A 51 A 52 Amendment of section 1 of the stitution. P.N. No. 78 nf 1961. Con No. 12 (2) of section 7 of the Constitu tion. Constiution (Amemdment) (No. 2) P.N. No. 78 of 1961.

(a) by the insertion immediately after the words Ever. " in the first line of subscction (1) thereof of the person words of negro African descent ""; and () bythe addition at the end thereof of the following )ew subsections " (3) For the puposes of this Constitution the expression person of negro African descent " means a person whose father and his father's father are or were negroes of African origin.

Section 4 of the Constitution is hereby repealed and reRepeal andreplacement placed by the following section of section 4 of the ** Persons Constitution born in P.N. No. 78 Sierra Leone of 1961. after 26th April, 1961. (4) Any person, either of whose parents is a negro of African descent and would, but for the provisions of subsection (3), have bcen a Sierra Leone citizen, may, on making application in such manner as may be pre scribed, be registered as a citizen of Sierra Leone, but such person shall not be qualified to become a member of the House of Representatives or of any District Council or other local authority unless he shall have resided continuously in Sierra Leone for twenty-five years after such registration or shall have served in the Civil or regùlar Armed Services of Sierra Leone for a continuous period of twenty-five years.". Repeal and 4. Subsection (2) of section 7 of the Constitution is hereby replacement repealed and replaced by the following

Sierra Leone after the twenty-sixth day of April, 1961, shall be a citizen of Sierra Leone at the date of his birth if at that date his father is or was a citizen of Sierra Leone.". (2) Every person who would have, but for the provisions of any amendment to this Constitution, beena citizen of Sierra Leone and every person who is a British subject without citizenship under the BritishNationality Act, 1948 (), or who continues to be a British subject under section 2 of that Act shall have thestatus of a Commonwealth Citizen.". of subsection No. 12 Constitution (Amendmen) (No. 2) 1962 MP 1012/1 A 53 Passed in the House of Representatives this 17th day of January, the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two. in S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with 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.