St. Vincent and Grenada Constitution Act 1876
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1876 c. 47 |
| Year | 1876 |
Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada Constitution Act, 1876.
(39 & 40 Vict.) CHAPTER 47.
An Act to make provision for the Government of the Islands of St. Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada, and their Dependencies.
[11th August 1876]
W HEREAS on the 9th of February, 1876, the President and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies passed an Address in the following terms; that is to say,
To Her most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
The humble Address of the President and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies showeth as follows:
We, the President and Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies, desire to approach Your Majesty with feelings of the most unbounded loyalty and respect, knowing as we do that Your Majesty has the welfare and well-being of all Your subjects at heart, and satisfied that it is expedient that the entire control and government of this island and its dependencies should be vested in Your Majesty, we have caused an Act repealing the present constitution of the Colony to be passed: And should Your Majesty be graciously pleased to assent thereto, we leave it entirely to Your Majesty's wisdom and discretion to erect such form of Government as Your Majesty shall deem most desirable for the welfare of the colony. And we remain, as in duty bound, Your Majesty's most dutiful and most devoted loving subjects and servants.
(Signed) HY. B. BECKWITH
‘President of the Assembly, House of Legislative Assembly, Grenada, 9th February 1876
(Signed) John Wells
, Clerk of the Assembly.’
And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity and effect of the said Act in the said Address referred to, and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to give effect to the said Address under the authority of Parliament, by enabling Her Majesty to erect such form of Government in the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies as Her Majesty shall deem most desirable for the welfare of the colony:
Be it therefore 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:
Part I.
Part I.
1 The Queen empowered to create a constitution for theIsland of Grenada and its Dependencies.
1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council to create and constitute a Government and Legislature for the Island of Grenada and its Dependencies in such form and with such powers as to Her Majesty may seem fit, and from time to time in like manner to alter or amend the constitution of such Government and Legislature; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in like manner to amend or repeal any Act of the Legislature of the said Island of Grenada and its Dependencies now in force, in so far as the same may be repugnant to the terms of any Order in Council passed in pursuance of this Act.
Part II.
Part II.
2 Acts passed by Legislatures of Saint Vincent and Tobagorespectively to be valid.
Whereas Acts have been passed by the Legislatures of the Islands of Saint Vincent and Tobago respectively, during...
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