LEEWARD 9
ISLANDS.

Amendment of
section 23 of
the Principal
Act.

Substitution
of section 25

Interpretation of Laws No. 4, of 1954
(Amendment)

ment”’ for the words “ Presidential Ordinance
or Imperial Statute”? appearing in the defini-

‘tion of the expression “ law”’.

4. Section 23 of the Principal Act is hereby

amended as follows:—

(a) by the deletion of the word “and”
appearing at the end of paragraph (c); and

(6) by the substitution of a semi-colon
for the full stop appearing at the end of
‘paragraph (d), and the addition thereafter of
the following paragraphs:—

‘

““(e) where any Act confers
power on any authority to make any
regulation, rule, by-law or order for

any general purpose, and also for - .

any special purposes incidental
thereto, the enumeration of the
special purposes shall not be deemed
to derogate from the generality of
the powers conferred with reference
to the general purpose;

(7) where any such instrument
purports to be made or issued under —
any particular provision, then it shall
be deemed also to be made under all
other powers thereunto enabling;
and. -

(y) any reference in any regu-
lation, rule, by-law or order to “ the
Act” shall be read and construed.as
a reference to the Act conferring the
power to make or issue such regula-
tion, rule, by-law or order.”

5. The following section is hereby substitu-

Sf the Prine ted for section 25 of the Principal Act:—

pal Act.

“Change in_
title of publio
office.

25. (1). When the Governor considers
it necessary to change the title of any public
office, he shall cause a notice to that effect to
be published in the (azette and, if practica-
ble, in at least one of the newspapers, if any,
circulating in each of the Presidencies concerned