Guyana Independence Act 1966
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1966 c. 14 |
(1) On and after 26th May 1966 (in this Act referred to as “the appointed day”) Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom shall have no responsibility for the government of the territory which immediately before that day constitutes the Colony of British Guiana and which on and after that day is to be called Guyana.(2) No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on or after the appointed day shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to Guyana as part of its law; and on and after that day the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the legislative powers of Guyana.purported to be a certificate of naturalisation, butdid not contain a declaration that, upon taking the oath of allegiance within the time and in the manner required by the regulations made in that behalf, that person was to be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies as from the date of the certificate,(2) Any document to which the preceding subsection applies shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, as a certificate of naturalisation granted under section 10 of the (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) For the purpose of the making, on or after the appointed day, of Orders in Council under section 4 of the (4) On and after the appointed day the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in that Schedule.(5) Subsection (4) of this section, and Schedule 2 to this Act, shall not extend to Guyana as part of its law.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) References in this Act to any enactment are references to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment.(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This Act may be cited as the Guyana Independence Act 1966. (1) The (2) No law and no provision of any law made on or after the appointed day by that legislature shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including this Act, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and accordingly the powers of that legislature shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as it is part of the law of Guyana.(3) The legislature of Guyana shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .section 4 of the (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) In section 1(6) of the (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) In section 2(4) of the
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