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Legislative Service Amendment Act 1992-93

COOK ISLANDS

LEGISLATIVE SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1992-93

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Printing of Acts and Statutory Instruments

1992-93, No. 18

An Act to amend the Legislative Service Act 1968-69

(21 May 1993

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Legislative Service Amendment Act 1992-93, and shall be read together with and deemed part of, the Legislative Service Act 1968-69 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Printing of Acts and Statutory Instruments

Section 29 of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (2), the following new subsection -

"(3) Subject to the Constitution, and under the direction of the Attorney-General, the Legislative Service, in the reprint from time to time of any Act or Statutory Instrument may -

• (a) prepare and arrange for the publication of a composite reprint edition of the Constitution and any Act or Statutory Instrument in such form as the Legislative Service shall consider desirable;
• (b) prepare a separate reprint of the Constitution or any Act or Statutory Instrument;
• (c) omit formal, enacting or introductory words;
• (d) unless inconsistent with the context, revise and correct obsolete references to Acts and Statutory Instruments and any office, department, board, or any other body whatsoever;
• (e) omit all repealed or revoked provisions and may renumber remaining provisions accordingly;
• (f) make such alterations as may be necessary to conform to current drafting style and practice, and reconcile any contradictions, supply any omissions; and amend any imperfections in the form of any existing Act or Statutory Instrument;

Provided that the substance of any Act or Statutory Instrument shall not be changed."

This Act is administered by the Legislative Service.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS:- Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government - 1993