Section 161: Existing Law.

For the purposes of this chapter, the expression “existing law” means any Act, law, rule, regulation, order or other instrument made in pursuance of (or continuing in operation under) the existing Constitution and having effect as part of the law of Sierra Leone or of any part thereof immediately before the commencement of this Constitution or any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or Order of Her Majesty in Council so having effect and may be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring it into conformity with this Constitution) as if it had been made under this Constitution by Parliament or, as the case may require, by the other authority or person. Application of