Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 1976
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1976/422 |
| Year | 1976 |
1976 No. 422
PACIFIC ISLANDS
The Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 197617thMarch 1976
24thMarch 1976
Section 3In accordance with section 1(3)In accordance with section 1(3)RemainderOn a day to be appointed under section 1(2)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of March 1976
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890(a) or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 1976 and shall be construed as one with the British Solomon Islands Order 1974(b) including the Constitution set out in the Schedule thereto as amended by the British Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 1975(c), the British Solomon Islands (Name of Territory) Order 1975(d), the Solomon Islands Courts Order 1975(e) and the Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 1975(f).
(2) This Order shall be published in the Gazette and, subject to the provisions of this section, shall come into operation on such day (in this Order referred to as "the appointed day") as the Governor, acting in his discretion, by proclamation published in like manner shall appoint, which day shall not be earlier than the day when this Order is so published nor earlier than 14th April 1976.
(3) The provisions of section 3 of this Order shall come into operation on the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly next following the appointed day.
2. In this Order, "the Constitution" means the Constitution set out in the Schedule to the British Solomon Islands Order 1974 as amended by the British Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 1975, the British Solomon Islands (Name of Territory) Order 1975, the Solomon Islands Courts Order 1975 and the Solomon Islands (Amendment) Order 1975.
(a) 1890 c. 37
(b) S.I. 1974/1262 (1974 II, p. 4785).
(c) S.I. 1975/807 (1975 II, p. 2888).
(d) S.I. 1975/808 (1975 II, p. 2890).
(e) S.I. 1975/1511 (1975 III, p. 5041).
(f) S.I. 1975/1832 (1975 III, p. 6916).
3. The Constitution is amended—
(a) in section 30(1)(b), by substituting for the word "fourteen" the word "twenty-three";
(b) in section 41(2)(b), by substituting for the word "twenty-four" the word "thirty-eight";
(c) in section 42(2), by substituting for the word "twenty-four" the word "thirty-eight";
(d) in section 58, by substituting for the...
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