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Law Revision
L.R.O.

LAW REVISION ACT

CHAPTER 3:03

Current Authorised Pages
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Act
44 of 1979

Amended by
47 of 1980
19 of 2000
23 of 2006

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Note on Subsidiary Legislation

Subsidiary Legislation made under the Act have been omitted.

The titles and references of the Subsidiary Legislation made under the Act are listed hereunder:

A. Commencement of Revised Laws
(a) The Revised Laws were first brought into operation on 31st July 1981

by the Law Revision (Prescribed Date) Order 1981—(LN 96/1981). This date was
the prescribed date for the purposes of clause 2 of the Law Revision Order,
1980—(LN 214/1980—L.R.O. 1/1980).

(b) The First Supplement to the Revised Laws (i.e., the first updating of the
Laws to 31st December 1980) was brought into operation on 4th March 1985 by the
Law Revision (Prescribed Date) Order 1985—(LN 34/1985).

(c) The Second Supplement to the Revised Laws (i.e., the second updating of
the laws to 31st December 1985) was brought into operation on 1st January 1992
by the Law Revision (Prescribed Date) Order 1991— (LN 182/1991).

B. Revision Dates of Written Laws
For the revision dates of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago (made

under sections 8 and 9 of the Act) See the following Orders:
(a) Law Revision (Revision Date) Order 1980—LN 216/1980 (the revision

dates—3lst December 1977; 31st December 1979; and 31st December 1980);
(b) Law Revision (Revision Date) Order 1982—LN 106/1982 (the revision

date— 31st December 1980);
(c) Law Revision (Revision Date) Order 1983—LN 188/1983 (the revision

date— 31st December 1983);
(d) Law Revision (Revision Date) Order 1987—LN 122/1987 (the revision

date— 31st December 1985);
[This Order revoked LN 188/1983, i.e., (c) above].

C. Removal from, and Inclusion in, the Pages of Written Laws in the Revised Edition
of the Laws

For authority of the Law Revision Commission to include in, and to
remove from, the Law pages of written laws that have been revised, See the
following Orders:

(a) Law Revision Order 1980—(LN 214/1980—L.R.O. 1/1980);
(b) Law Revision Order 1981—(LN 97/1981—L.R.O.1/1981);
(c) Law Revision Order (No. 2) 1981—(LN 132/1981—L.R.O. 2/1981);
(d) Law Revision Order 1983—(LN 187/1983—L.R.O. 1/1983);
(e) Law Revision Order 1990—(LN 233/1990—L.R.O. 1/1990).

D. Special Inclusion of Written Laws
For special inclusion of written laws See the following Orders:
(a) Law Revision (Special Inclusion of Written Laws) Order 1980—LN 215/1980;

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(b) Law Revision (Special Inclusion of Written Laws) Order 1983—
LN 12/1983;

(c) Law Revision (Special Inclusion of Written Laws) Order 1990—
LN 235/1990.

E. Omitted Acts
For authority to omit written laws from the Revised Edition, See

Law Revision (Omission of Acts) Order 1980—LN 218/1980.
Law Revision (Omission of Acts) Order 1983—LN 17/1983.
Law Revision (Omission of Acts) Order 1990—LN 234/1990.

F. Metrication of Written Laws
For the written laws in which metric weights and measures were substituted

for Imperial weights and measures, See the following Notices:
(a) LN 185/1980; and
(b) LN 186/1983.

G. Transfer of Functions
For written laws in which a function vested in a public officer (including

the President, a Minister or a Judge) was transferred to another public officer,
See the following Notices:

(a) LN 52/1980;
(b) LN 120/1980; and
(c) LN 185/1983.

H. Increase of Monetary Sums
For written laws in which monetary sums (other than fines) were increased,

See the following Notices:
(a) LN 51/1980; and
(b) LN 9/1983.

I. Correction Orders
For Orders rectifying errors in the Revised Edition, See the following:
(a) Revised Edition (Correction) Order 1981—LN 98/1981;
(b) Revised Edition (Correction) Order 1982—LN 105/1982;
(c) Revised Edition (Correction) Order 1983—LN 10/1983;
(d) Revised Edition (Correction) (No. 2) Order 1983—LN 30/1983; and
(e) Revised Edition (Correction) (No. 3) Order 1983—LN 141/1983.

N.B.—For further Orders made under the above Headings, SEE the Current Edition of the
Consolidated Index of Acts and Subsidiary Legislation.



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CHAPTER 3:03

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Establishment of Law Revision Commission.
3A. Terms and conditions of appointment of Chairman.
3B. Chairman’s Report.
3C. Annual Report.
4. Functions of Commission.
5. Form of publication.
6. Inclusion or removal of pages to be authorised by Order.
7. Pages of Laws to be headed “Laws of Trinidad and Tobago”.
8. Revision date and periodic revision of Laws.
9. Special revision date for particular Law.
10. Certain officers to maintain sets of Laws.
11. Bound sets of Laws to be kept for record.
12. Contents of Laws of Trinidad and Tobago.
13. Power to omit certain Laws.
14. Validity of laws not affected by omission from the Laws.
15. Laws of Trinidad and Tobago constitute proper Statute Book.
16. Powers of Commission.
17. No power to make alterations of substance.
18. Revised laws not to operate as new laws.
19. Altered provisions authentic as if so enacted.
20. Construction of references to laws embodied in the Laws.
21. Rectification of error or omission in the Laws.
22. Alternative mode of amending Laws.
23. Further powers on first revision.
24. Expenses of Revision.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECOND SCHEDULE.

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44 of 1979.

C o m m e n c e m e n t .

Short title.

Interpretation.
[19 of 2000
23 of 2006].

Establishment
of Law
Revision
Commission.
[19 of 2000].

CHAPTER 3:03

LAW REVISION ACT

An Act to provide for the Revision of the Laws of Trinidad
and Tobago and for matters connected therewith.

[24TH DECEMBER 1979]
1. This Act may be cited as the Law Revision Act.

2. In this Act—
“Act” includes an Ordinance and includes part of an Act but does

not include subsidiary legislation made under the Act;
“Chairman” means the Chairman appointed by the President

under section 3A;
“Commission” means the Law Revision Commission established

under section 3;
“in operation”, in relation to any written law other than a written

law to which section 12(3) applies, means made and brought
into operation;

“Laws” means the revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad
and Tobago referred to in section 4;

“Law Revision Order” means an Order made by the Commission
under section 6;

“Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for law
revision is assigned;

“revision date” means a date appointed by Order under section 8(1) t o
be a revision date for the Laws; and, where the Laws contain any
particular written law last revised under section 9, a reference in
this or any other written law to the revision date or the last
revision date of the Laws shall, in relation to that particular
written law, include a reference to its special revision date.

3. For the purposes of this Act there is established a Law
Revision Commission comprising—

(a) a Chairman;
(b) the Chairman, the Law Reform Commission; and
(c) such other legal officers as the President

may appoint.

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Terms and
conditions of
appointment of
Chairman.
[19 of 2000].
Chairman’s
Report.
[19 of 2000].

Annual Report.
[19 of 2000].

Functions of
Commission.

Form of
publication.

Inclusion or
removal of
pages to be
authorised by
Order.
[47 of 1980].

Page of Laws
to be headed
“Laws of
Trinidad and
Tobago”.

3A. The Chairman shall be appointed by the President for a
term not exceeding three years.

3B. The Chairman shall prepare at the beginning of each year
a programme for Law Revision for that year and submit it to the
Minister no later than January 31 of that year.

3C. The Law Revision Commission shall submit an annual
report of its activities to the Minister who shall cause the report
to be laid in Parliament.

4. The Commission shall prepare, publish and maintain a
revised edition of the written laws of Trinidad and Tobago (to be
called the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago) in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.

5. The Laws shall be published in loose-leaf form or in such
other form as the Commission may determine and shall comprise
such pages as may be authorised to be included therein under
section 6.

6. (1) The Commission, with the approval of the Minister,
shall by Order authorise the inclusion in the Laws of every page
to be comprised therein, and every page so authorised, and
no other, shall form part of the Laws. An Order under this
subsection may provide that the page shall be included in the
Laws as from a particular date or as from a date to be prescribed
by a subsequent Order.

(2) The Commission, with the approval of the Minister,
may by Order direct the removal of any page from the Laws
and any page so directed to be removed shall cease to form part
of the Laws.

(3) Every page comprised in the Laws shall bear on its
face or overleaf a reference to the Law Revision Order by which
its inclusion therein is authorised.

7. (1) Every page comprised in the Laws shall bear at the
top of the heading “Laws of Trinidad and Tobago”.

(2) A page bearing the heading prescribed by subsection (1)
and appearing in other respects to be part of the Laws shall for all
purposes be presumed to be a page of the Laws.

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Revision date
and periodic
revision of
Laws.

Special revision
date for
particular Law.

Certain officers
to maintain sets
of Laws.

(3) Any person who prints, publishes or knowingly has
in his possession any page falsely purporting to be a page of the
Laws or so closely resembling a page of the Laws as to be likely
to be mistaken for such page is liable on summary conviction to
a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

8. (1) The Commission may by Order appoint a date to be
a revision date for the Laws.
(2) The Commission shall revise the Laws as soon as
practicable after each revision date, that is to say, the
Commission shall prepare the necessary pages and make the
necessary Orders for the inclusion of these pages in the Laws
and (with respect to the second or any subsequent revision) for
the removal of pages no longer required, to the intent that the
Laws shall, subject to such omissions as are authorised under
section 13, contain all the written laws in operation in Trinidad
and Tobago on such revision date.

9. (1) In special circumstances, the Commission may by
Order appoint a date other than the revision date appointed under
section 8 as a special revision date for a particular written law
specified in the Order.
(2) The Commission shall revise the particular written
law as soon as practicable after the special revision date and
shall publish it, as in operation on that date, in the Laws.
(3) In every such case, the Commission shall insert an
appropriate note in the Laws with reference to the special
revision date of that written law.

10. (1) The Commission shall cause a copy of every page
authorised to appear in the Laws to be delivered as soon as
practicable after publication to the Attorney General, to the Clerk
of the House of Representatives, to the Clerk of the Senate, to the
Registrar of the Supreme Court and to the Government Archivist.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Commission and each of the
o fficers referred to in subsection (1) to maintain one set of the Laws
and punctually to insert pages authorised to be inserted under
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Bound sets of
Laws to be kept
for record.

Contents of
Laws of
Trinidad and
Tobago.

section 6(2); and the Commission shall take such further steps
as are necessary to ensure that there shall be at all times available
to the Courts and to the public sets of the Laws maintained in the
manner provided by this subsection.

11. (1) The Commission shall cause six sets of the Laws as
originally published to be bound in such number of volumes as
the Commission may think fit.
(2) The Commission shall retain one set and shall
cause one set to be delivered to the Attorney General, to the
Clerk of the House of Representatives, to the Clerk of the Senate,
to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and to the Government
Archivist, and it shall be the duty of the Commission and of
such officers to maintain in safe custody their respective sets
together with the Orders and supplementary pages referred to in
subsection (3) for the purpose of record.
(3) Every year or at such other intervals as the
Commission may think fit, six sets of all supplementary pages
issued under section 8 or 9, all Notifications made under
section 21(2)(a) and all pages issued under section 21(2)(b)
shall be bound in such number of volumes as may be convenient
and shall be dealt with in the same manner as the bound sets of
the Laws as originally published are required to be dealt with
by subsection (2).

12. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and to section 13,
the Laws shall contain—
(a) the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago as in

operation on the last revision date;
(b) every Act in operation in Trinidad and Tobago

on the last revision date, unless omitted under
section 13;

(c) such subsidiary legislation in operation in
Trinidad and Tobago on the last revision date
as the Commission thinks fit to include therein;

(d) a chronological list of Acts, a table of contents
and an index;

(e) a list of the Acts omitted under the authority
of sections 13(1) and 13(2)(d) and (e).

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First Schedule.

Power to omit
certain Laws.

Validity of Laws
not affected by
omission from
the Laws.

Laws of
Trinidad and
Tobago
constitute
proper Statute
Book.

(2) The Commission may include in the Laws an
Appendix of pages containing such constitutional, legislative
or other documents as may from time to time be specified in
the First Schedule; and the President shall have power by Order
to amend the said Schedule.
(3) In special circumstances, the Commission may,
with the approval of the Minister by Order under section 6
authorise the inclusion in the Laws of a written law which
has been made but not yet brought into operation on the last
revision date of the Laws; and in relation to any such law the
expression “in operation” in subsection (1) and in sections 8(2),
9(2) and 15 means made, whether brought into operation or not.

13. (1) The President may by Order authorise the
Commission to omit from the Laws any Act specified in the Order.

( 2 ) In addition to any Act omitted under subsection (1),
the Commission may further omit from the Laws—
(a) any Appropriation Act or Supplementary

Appropriation Act;
(b) any applied United Kingdom Act;
(c) any Act authorising the raising or guaranteeing
of a specific loan;
(d) any applied Federal Act;
(e) any Act of a temporary nature which can in the

opinion of the Commission be conveniently
omitted.

14. No written law omitted from the Laws, under the
authority of this Act or otherwise, shall be deemed to be without
force and validity by reason only of the fact that it is so omitted.

15. Subject to sections 14 and 17, the pages duly authorised
for inclusion in the Laws shall, in all Courts and for all
purposes, be the proper Statute Book of Trinidad and Tobago in
respect of the written laws contained therein as in operation on
the last revision date; and all such written laws shall be
judicially noticed.

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Powers of
Commission.

16. In the preparation of the Laws for any revision under
section 8 or 9, the Commission shall have the following powers:
(a) to omit—
(i) all written laws or parts of written laws

which have been repealed expressly or by
necessary implication, or which have
expired or have become spent or have had
their effect;

(ii) all repealing provisions contained in
written laws and also all tables or lists of
repealed written laws whether contained
in Schedules or otherwise;

(iii) all words of enactment in any written law
or provision of a written law;

(iv) all provisions prescribing the date when, or
manner in which, any written law or part of
any written law is to come into operation,
where such omission can, in the opinion of
the Commission, conveniently be made;

(v) all amending written laws or parts of
written laws where the amendments
effected by such written laws have been
embodied by the Commission in the
written laws to which they relate;

(b) to consolidate into one written law any two or
more written laws in pari materia, making the
alterations thereby rendered necessary in the
consolidated written laws, and affixing such
date thereto as may seem most convenient;

(c) to alter the order of the provisions in any written
law and, in all cases where it is necessary to do
so, to renumber the provisions of any written law;

(d) to alter the form or arrangement of any provision
of any written law, either by combining it in
whole or in part with another provision or other
provisions, or by dividing it into two or more
provisions or by transposing words;

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(e) to divide any written law, whether consolidated
or not, into parts or other divisions and to give
such parts or divisions suitable headings;

(f) to transfer any provisions contained in any
written law from that written law to any other
written law to which it more properly belongs or
to a separate written law;

(g) to arrange the written laws, whether consolidated
or not, in any group or sequence that may be
convenient irrespective of the date of enactment;

(h) to add a long title, a short title or a citation to
any written law which may require it, and,
where desirable, to alter the long title, short title
or citation of any written law;

(i) to shorten, simplify, clarify and otherwise alter
the phraseology of any written law;

(j) to correct grammatical and typographical errors,
or any clerical or printing errors in any written
l a w, and for that purpose to make verbal
additions, omissions or alterations not affecting
the meaning of any written law;

(k) to add, delete, alter and substitute definitions
of terms and expressions in any written law;

(l) to supply or alter marginal notes, head notes
or headings;

(m) to correct cross-references;
(n) to make such formal alterations as to names,

localities, offices, titles and otherwise as may
be necessary to bring any written law into
conformity with the circumstances of Trinidad
and Tobago;

(o) to make such modifications and adaptations
and to attach such qualifications and exceptions
to any written law as may appear to be necessary
or desirable by reason of changes in the
Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago or of any
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No power to
make alterations
of substance.
Second
Schedule.

Revised laws
not to operate as
new laws.

Altered
provisions
authentic as if
so enacted.
Ch. 3:01.

Construction of
references to
laws embodied
in the Laws.

circumstances of Trinidad and Tobago or in the
Government or the Public Service thereof;

(p) to do all things relating to form and method
which may be necessary for the perfecting of
the Laws.

17. (1) Nothing in this Act, except in section 23 and the
Second Schedule, shall be construed to confer power on the
Commission to alter the substance of any written law.
(2) In any case where it appears necessary to the
Commission to alter the substance of any written law, the
Commission may draft a Bill for the purpose.
(3) Every Bill drafted pursuant to subsection (2) shall be
submitted to the Minister who shall, upon the authority of the
Cabinet, cause such Bill to be submitted to Parliament to be dealt
with in accordance with normal procedure.

18. The Laws shall not be held to operate as new laws, but
shall be construed and have effect as a consolidation and as
declaratory of the written laws that have been revised and
published therein.

19. Where, having regard to any provisions of the
Interpretation Act the Commission has, in exercise of any power
conferred by this Act, reworded a written law by way of
simplification or otherwise omitted any provision thereof, or
altered any written law in any other way, without affecting the
substance thereof, the altered provisions of the written law
published in accordance with this Act shall for all purposes be
deemed to be the authentic version of the written law as if they
had been enacted in that form.

20. Where in any written law or other instrument or
document reference is made to any written law the provisions of
which have been by virtue of this Act embodied in the Laws, such
reference shall where necessary and practicable be deemed to
extend and apply to the corresponding provisions in the Laws.

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Rectification of
error or
omission in the
Laws.

Alternative
mode of
amending Laws.

21. (1) Where any error made in the publication of the Laws
comes to the attention of the Commission, the Commission shall
forthwith rectify the error in the manner provided by this section.
(2) The Commission may rectify the error—
(a) by an Order (to be called a “Correction Order”)

making the required amendments to the Laws;
and (either alternatively or in addition);

(b) by a Law Revision Order removing, inserting or
replacing such pages in the Laws as the
circumstances may require.

(3) A Correction Order or a Law Revision Order made
for the purpose of rectifying an error may have retrospective
effect as from the date of the inclusion in the Laws of the page
containing the error.
(4) In this section an “error” means the publication by
the Commission of a written law in a form not authorised by this
Act, or the omission from the Laws of a written law which is
required by this Act to be published in the Laws.

22. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6(1),
where the Commission thinks it expedient, in the interest of
economy or convenience, in revising any page of the Laws to
which an amendment has been made since the last revision date
or to which the Commission proposes to make an amendment,
the Commission may, as an alternative to incorporating the
amendment in the Laws by removing the page and inserting in its
place a page setting out the law as amended—
(a) allow the page to which the amendment relates

(in this section called the “amended page”) to
continue to form part of the Laws; and

(b) include in the Laws a page (in this section called
an “amendment page”) setting out the
particulars of the amendment.

(2) The exercise of its powers under this section in respect
of an amendment shall in no way prejudice the power of the
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Further powers
on first revision.

Second
Schedule.

Expenses of
Revision.

Section 12(2).

[47 of 1980].

by removing the amended page and inserting in its place a page
setting out the law as amended.
(3) An amendment page shall for all purposes form part of
the Laws and may be dealt with in accordance with the provisions
of this Act in the same manner as any other page of the Laws.

23. In the first revision under this Act of any written law in
force at the commencement of this Act, the Commission in
addition to the powers and duties conferred on it by the above
provision of this Act shall have the further powers and duties set
out in the Second Schedule.

24. The expenses of and incidental to the preparation and
publication of the Laws shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund.

FIRST SCHEDULE

The Trinidad and Tobago Act, 1887—(50 & 51 Vict. c. 44).

Order in Council, 1888 uniting the Colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.

Order in Council, 1898 constituting Tobago a Ward of Trinidad and Tobago.

Submarine Areas of the Gulf of Paria Annexation Order, 1942.

West Indies Act, 1962—(10 & 11 Eliz. 2, c. 19) sections 5, 6, 10 and Schedule.

Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act, 1962—(10 & 11 Eliz. 2 c. 54).

Trinidad and Tobago (Constitution) Order in Council, 1962—(S.I. 1962, No. 1875).

Trinidad and Tobago Republic Act, 1976—(1976 c. 54).

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Section 23.

[47 of 1980].

SECOND SCHEDULE

The additional powers and duties of the Commission provided for in
section 23 of this Act are as follows:

1. (a) In any written law imposing a specified fine, the Commission
shall in lieu of such fine substitute a fine calculated in
accordance with the provisions of subparagraphs ( b ) and ( c ).

(b) The fine shall first be increased as follows:
(i) where the law imposing the fine was made before the

year 1940 the fine shall be multiplied by eight;
(ii) where the law imposing the fine was made in or after

the year 1940 but before the year 1950, the fine shall
be multiplied by six;

(iii) where the law imposing the fine was made in or after
the year 1950 but before the year 1960, the fine shall
be multiplied by four;

(iv) where the law imposing the fine was made in or after
the year 1960 but before the year 1970, the fine shall
be multiplied by three;

(v) where the law imposing the fine was made in or after
the year 1970 but before the year 1976, the fine shall
be multiplied by two.

(c) The figure arrived at in calculating the increased fines (in
dollars) in accordance with paragraph (b) and any monetary
fine imposed by a law made in 1976 or after shall, subject to
the exceptions indicated, be rounded off as follows:

(i) where not more than $25, the figure (if not a multiple
of five) shall be rounded off to the next higher figure
which is a multiple of five;

(ii) where more than $25, but not more than $50, the
figure (if not a multiple of ten) shall be rounded off to
the next higher figure which is a multiple of ten;

(iii) where more than $50, but not more than $100, the
figure (if not a multiple of twenty-five) shall be
rounded off to the next higher figure which is a
multiple of twenty-five;

(iv) where more than $100, but not more than $300, the
figure (if not a multiple of fifty) shall be rounded off
to the next higher figure which is a multiple of fifty;

(v) where more than $300, but not more than $500, the
figure (if not a multiple of one hundred) shall be
rounded off to the next higher figure which is a
multiple of one hundred;

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[47 of 1980].

Ch. 48:50.

(vi) where more than $500, but not more than $1,000, (if
not a multiple of two hundred and fifty) shall be
rounded off to the next higher figure which is a
multiple of two hundred and fifty;

(vii) where more than $1,000, but not more than $2,000,
the figure (if not a multiple of five hundred) shall be
rounded off to the next higher figure which is a
multiple of five hundred;

(viii) where more than $2,000, the figure (if not a multiple
of one thousand) shall be rounded off to the next
higher figure which is a multiple of one thousand.

(d) The above provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to
section 24(1)(b) of the Stamp Duty Act and other similar
provisions imposing fines on a scale based on the value of
something in relation to which the offence is defined.

(e) In this paragraph “fine” includes any sum to be paid or forfeited
to the State or to any statutory body by way of a penalty.

2. The following sums occurring in any written law shall be increased
in the manner provided in paragraph 1 as if they were fines imposed within the
meaning of that paragraph:

(a) a sum prescribed as a fine or a maximum fine that may be
imposed by a subordinate law-making authority; or

(b) a sum specified for the purpose of a bond or recognisance
into which anyone is required to enter in or in respect of any
criminal matter.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, the Commission shall
for the words “fine of one hundred dollars” occurring in section 65 of the
Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act, substitute the words “a fine of five
hundred dollars and imprisonment for three months.”

4. (1) When a written law prescribes a monetary sum other than a
monetary sum to which paragraph 1 or 2 applies, the Commission, with the
approval of the President signified by Notice in the Gazette, may increase the
sum to an amount not exceeding the amount that would be authorised if the
sum were a fine to which paragraph 1 applies.
(2) (a) Where a written law prescribes a fee for any purpose, the
Commission, with the approval of the President signified by Notice in the
Gazette, may delete the fee from the written law and make any necessary
consequential deletions and adaptations in the written law.
(b) In this subparagraph, the expression “fee” means any sum
required to be paid as a charge in respect of any service, grant, permission or
other consideration.

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Ch. 4:01.

Ch. 3:01.

5. (1) Where any law (in whatever terms) prescribes six or twelve cents
for any purpose, the Commission may round off the figure and substitute ten
or fifteen cents, respectively.
(2) Where any law (in whatever terms) prescribes twenty-four cents
or twenty-four dollars or any multiple of these sums for any purpose, the
Commission may round off the figure and substitute, respectively, twenty-five
cents or twenty-five dollars and, in the case of a multiple of any of these sums,
a proportionately rounded-off sum.

6. Where any provision of a written law vests any function in a public
o fficer (which expression in this paragraph includes the President,
a Minister, a Judge of the Supreme Court and the holder of a public office
without emolument) the Commission, with the approval of the Minister
signified by Notice in the Gazette—

(a) may substitute a provision vesting the function in any other
public officer or authority or any public officer or authority
to be appointed by a Minister; or

(b) where the function is vested in two or more public off i c e r s
including the Warden, may delete the reference to the Wa r d e n .

7. Where a provision of any written law confers on the Chief Justice and
any Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court or on any other authority power to
make Rules governing the practice and procedure and other similar matters in
relation to any Court, Tribunal or other similar body, the Commission may for
such provision substitute a provision conferring the power on the Rules
Committee of the Supreme Court established by the Supreme Court of
Judicature Act and where the power is (in whatever terms) conferred subject to
a ffirmative resolution of Parliament, the provision substituted by the Commission
shall instead confer the power subject to negative resolution of Parliament.

8. (1) Where any written law provides for subsidiary legislation
made by any authority to be submitted to Parliament in such terms that the
subsidiary legislation is in substance subject to negative or subject to aff i r m a t i v e
resolution of Parliament within the meaning of section 45 of the Interpretation
Act, the Commission may substitute a provision to the effect that the subsidiary
legislation may be made by the authority subject to negative resolution or subject
to affirmative resolution, as the case may be, of Parliament and may omit any
provision contained in the written law as to the period within which the subsidiary
legislation is to be submitted to Parliament or within which Parliament is to
approve or annul such subsidiary legislation or any provision as to the proof of
any matters or things in relation thereto or any other such ancillary provisions.

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45 of 1979.

Ch. 31. No. 15.
(1950 Ed.).

45 of 1979.
46 of 1979.
47 of 1980.

(2) Subparagraph (1) applies to a written law that provides for
subsidiary legislation made by any authority to be submitted to the House of
Representatives as if references to that House were substituted for the
references to Parliament in that subparagraph.

9. The Commission may substitute the expression “written law” for the
expression “enactment” wherever the latter expression occurs bearing the
meaning assigned to it by the Interpretation Act, immediately before
commencement of the Law Revision (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 1)
Act 1979.

10. The Commission may substitute the expression “given name” for the
expression “Christian name” wherever the latter expression appears in any
written law.

11. The Commission may substitute the expression “First Division Police
Officer” for the expression “Gazetted Police Officer” wherever the latter
expression appears in any written law, and may substitute the expression
“Second Division Police Officer” for the expression “non-Gazetted Police
Officer” wherever the latter expression appears in any written law.

12. (1) Where a reference to any weight or measure other than a metric
weight or measure occurs in any written law the Commission may substitute
the equivalent metric weight or measure within the meaning of the Weights
and Measures Ordinance.
(2) With the approval of the Minister signified by Notice in the
Gazette, the weight or measure substituted under subparagraph (1) may vary
from the equivalent of the weight or measure for which it is substituted but
only so far as, in the opinion of the Minister, such variation is necessary or
expedient for the purpose of facilitating the practical application and
administration of the particular law.
(3) Where in a written law a reference is made to a rate prescribing
a monetary sum in relation to a unit of imperial weights or measures, the
Commission may substitute a rate prescribing an equivalent monetary sum in
relation to a unit of metric weights or measures. Then the Commission may
vary such monetary sum in the same manner and subject to the same
conditions as it may, under subparagraph (2), vary a weight or measure
substituted under subparagraph (1).

13. The Commission may incorporate in a written law any amendment
made to the written law by the Law Revision (Miscellaneous Amendments)
(No. 1) Act 1979 or the Law Revision (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2)
Act 1979, as amended in either case by the Law Revision (Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act 1980, whether or not the amendments were brought into
operation on or before the revision date of that written law.

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