No. 7 of 1954. Interpretation vj Laws
(Amendment).

[L.S.]
I Assenrv,
K. W. Buackpurye,
Governor.
Ist June, 1954.

MONTSERRAT.
No. 7 of 1954.

An Ordinance to amend further the Interpretation
of Laws Act, 1898.

BE IT ORDAINED by the Governor and
Legislative Council of Montserrat as follows:—

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the
Interpretation of Laws (Amendment) Ordinance,
1954 and shall be read as one with the Interpreta-
tion of Laws Ordinance 1898, as amended, herein-
after called the Principal Ordinance.

2. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is
hereby amended as follows: —

(a) by the renumbering of the section as
subsection (1) of section 10;

(6) by the addition of the following as
subsections (2) and (3) respectively:—

““(2) All acts done and performed by the
person acting for, and doing the duty of, any

MONTSERRAT,

Short title.
6/1898,

2/1928,
1/1940,
4/

4/1952.

Amendment

of Section 10
of Principal

Ordinance.

public officer who. has obtained leave of |

absence within the period for which such leave

has been granted, shall be good, valid and —

effectual for all purposes whatsoever, notwith-
standing that such public officer may be with-
in the Presidency at the time when such acts
were done and performed.

(3) Unlesa the contrary intention ap-
pears, where any Ordinance whether passed
before or after the commencement of this
Ordinance, contains a reference to the Attor-
ney-General, the reference shall, in the absence
of the Attorney-General from the Presidency,