Colonial Affidavits Act 1859
22 & 23 Vict. c. 12 · Enacted 8 August 1859 · Extends to United Kingdom
An Act . . .F1 to enable . . . Colonial Legislatures to repeal certain Provisions of the Imperial Acts of the Fifty-fourth year of George the Third, Chapter Fifteen, and of the Fifth and Sixth Years of William the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-two.
Annotations to the whole text
Textual amendments
- F1
Words omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Modifications
- C1
Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
- C2
Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Contents
- 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
- 2Power to Colonial Legislatures to repeal, alter, or amend provisions of recited Acts so far as applicable to such possessions.
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2Power to Colonial Legislatures to repeal, alter, or amend provisions of recited Acts so far as applicable to such possessions.C1
It shall be lawful for the legislature or other legislative authority of any of Her Majesty’s possessions abroad to which any of the provisions contained in the said first-recited Act, or in the fifteenth or seventeenth section of the said secondly-recited Act, shall apply, to repeal,alter, or amend all or any of the provisions, so far as applicable to such possession, in like manner and subject to the same conditions as if the same had been originally enacted by such legislature or legislative authority.