Kenya Independence Act 1963
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1963 c. 54 |
| Year | 1963 |
(1) On and after 12th December 1963 (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 Kenya or any part thereof.(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 Kenya, or any part of Kenya, as part of the law thereof; and on and after that day the provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to legislative powers in Kenya.(3) In this Act “Kenya” includes the territories comprised immediately before the appointed day in the Kenya Protectorate.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(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, Schedule 2 to this Act . . . (1) In this Act “the existing Constitution Order” means the Kenya Order in Council 1963 as amended by the Kenya (Amendment) Order in Council 1963; and references in this Act to Kenya shall be construed in accordance with section 1(3) of this Act.(2) References in this Act to any enactment are references to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment.This Act may be cited as the Kenya Independence Act 1963. (1) The (2) No law and no provision of any law made on or after the appointed day by any such 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, subject to paragraph 6 of this Schedule, the powers of any such 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 Kenya or any part thereof and in so far as it relates to matters within the legislative powers of that legislature.(3) Any legislature established for Kenya or any part thereof shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation, so far as those laws relate to matters within the legislative powers of that legislature.(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(5) Without prejudice to the genrality of the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, section 4 of the Nothing in this Act shall confer on any legislature established for Kenya or any part thereof any power to repeal, amend or modify the constitutional provisions otherwise than in such manner as may be provided for in those provisions.this Act;any Order in Council revoking the existing Constitution Order and providing for a new constitution for Kenya to come into effect on the appointed day;any law, or instrument made under a law, of any legislature established for Kenya or any part thereof which, being a law or instrument made on or after the appointed day, amends, modifies, re-enacts with or without amendment or modification, or makes different provision in lieu of, any provisions of this Act, of the Order in Council first mentioned in this sub-paragraph, or of any such law or instrument previously made.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) In section 1(6) of the Diplomatic Immunities (Commonwealth Countries and Republic of Ireland) Act 1952, before the words “and the Republic of Ireland” there shall be inserted the word “Kenya”.(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) In section 2(4) of the
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