Article 13 Power to make laws.

The Commissioner may make laws, to be styled Ordinances, for the peace, order and good government of the Territory.

Subject to any instructions from time to time given by Her Majesty through a Secretary of State, the Commissioner shall in the making of Ordinances observe, so far as practicable, the rules set out in Schedule 2 to this Order:

Provided that the validity or effect of an Ordinance made by the Commissioner shall not be called in question by reason of the non-observance of any such rule.

All Ordinances made by the Commissioner in exercise of the powers conferred by this Order shall be published in the Official Gazette for the Territory and in such manner and at such place or places in the Territory as the Commissioner may from time to time direct.

Every such Ordinance shall come into operation on the date on which it is published in accordance with subsection (3) of this section unless it is provided, either in such Ordinance or in some other enactment, that it shall come into operation on some other date, in which case it shall come into operation on that date.