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(Amendment) Act, 2003

Act No. 2 of 2003

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No. 2 Armed Forces of the Republic of 2003 Sierra Leone (Amendment) Act No. 2 Armed Forces of the Republic of 2003 Sierra Leone (Amendment) Act Short title. S IGNED this 4th day of April, 2003 ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, President. LS No. 2 2003 Sierra Leone The Armed Forces of the Republic of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Act, 2003 Being an Act to amend the Armed Forces of the Republic of Sierra Leone Act, 1961. [10th April, 2003] E NACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. ACT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXXXIV, No. 16 dated 10th April, 2003 Date of Commencement. Section 83 of the Armed Forces of the Republic Sierra Leone Act, 1961 is amended by the substitution for subsection (1) thereof of the following:– “(1) The following persons may act as appropriate superior authority in relation to a person charged with an offence, that is to say, the Chief of Defence Staff and any officer of the rank of colonel or above or officer of corresponding rank under whose command the person is for the time being.”. Amemdment of section 83 of Act No. 34 of 1961. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE G OVERNMENT P RINTING D EPARTMENT , S IERRA LEONE . GAZETTE N O . 16 OF 10 TH A PRIL, 2003. Passed in Parliament this 27th day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand and three. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament. T HIS P RINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament.

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