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British Caribbean Federation Act 1956

As Enacted Cited authorities 3 Cited in Amendments 5 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1956 c. 63


British Caribbean Federation Act , 1956

(4 & 5 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 63

An Act to provide for the federation of certain West Indian colonies and for the transfer, to a court established for the purposes of the federation, of the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal established by the West Indian Court of Appeal Act, 1919, and the dissolution of that Court; to provide for conferring on the first-mentioned court jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from the courts of colonies which are not for the time being included in the federation and to repeal the British Honduras (Court of Appeal) Act, 1881; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Power by Order in Council to establish federation, &c.

1 Power by Order in Council to establish federation, &c.

(1) Her Majesty may, by an Order in Council,—

(a ) provide for the federation of the colonies specified in the Schedule to this Act (with their respective dependencies, if any) and, in that connection,—

(i) provide for the establishment of a Federal Government, a Federal Legislature, a Federal Supreme Court and such other Federal authorities as may appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient;

(ii)confer, or provide for conferring, on the said Government, Legislature, Court and authorities, and on any other Governments, Legislatures, Courts and authorities (whether within those colonies or elsewhere) such powers and duties as may be specified by or under the Order, including (in the case of any Legislature) power to make laws having extraterritorial operation;

(b ) amend, in such manner as may appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient, having regard to the federation, the enactments, Letters Patent, Orders in Council or other instruments relating to the government of those colonies respectively and their dependencies;

(c ) make, or provide for the making of, such incidental, consequential and transitional provisions as may appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient as aforesaid, including, in particular, adaptations and modifications of any enactments, Orders in Council, orders, regulations or other instruments relating or referring to any of those colonies or their dependencies.

(2) An Order in Council under the foregoing subsection may—

(a ) include provision for the accession to the federation established by the Order of other colonies (with their dependencies, if any) and with respect to the manner in which dependencies of colonies for the time being included in the said federation are to be treated for the purposes thereof;

(b ) authorise Her Majesty in Council by Order to make, in connection with the accession of a colony to the said federation, provision (whether or not involving amendment or revocation of any provisions of the first-mentioned Order) for anything for which, by virtue of the foregoing subsection, She might make provision if the occasion of the accession were that of the establishment of the federation and the acceding colony were included amongst the colonies specified in the Schedule to this Act;

(c ) authorise Her Majesty in Council by Order to make, for such purposes as may be specified in the...

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