Section 53: Mode of exercising legislative power.

(1) The power of Parliament to make laws shall be exercised by Bills passed by Parliament and signed by thePresident. (2) A Bill shall not become law unless it has been duly passed and signed in accordance with this Constitution. (3) An Act signed by the President shall come into operation on the date of its publication in the Gazette or such other date as may be prescribed therein or in any other enactment. (4) When a Bill which has been duly passed is signed by the President in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution it shall become law and the President shall thereupon cause it to be published in the Gazette as law. (5) Any law made by Parliament shall come into operation on the date of its publication in the Gazette or such other date as may be prescribed therein or in any other enactment, but Parliament may postpone the coming into operation of any such law and may make laws with retroactive effect. (6) All laws made by Parliament shall be styled “Acts” and the words of enactment shall be “Enacted by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled”. (7) Nothing in this Section or in Section 79 of this Constitution shall prevent Parliament from conferring on any person or authority the power to make statutory instruments. (8) Every statutory instrument shall be published in the Gazette not later than twenty-eight days after it is made or, in the case of a Statutory instrument which will not have the force of law unless it is approved by some person or authority other than the person or authority by which it is made, not later than twenty-eight days after it is approved, and if it is not so published it shall be void from the date on which it was made. Restriction with regard to certain financial measures.