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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010/article-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010/article-118.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2474",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010",
  "path": "article/118",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Existing offices and officers",
  "text": "(1) Any office established by or under the existing Constitution and existing immediately before the appointed day shall on and after that day, so far as consistent with this Constitution, continue as if it had been established by or under this Constitution.\n(2) Any person who immediately before the appointed day holds or is acting in any office continued by virtue of subsection (1) shall, on and after that day, continue to hold or act in that office as if he or she had been appointed to hold or act in it in accordance with or under this Constitution.\n(3) Any person to whom subsection (2) applies who, before the appointed day, has made any oath or affirmation required to be made before assuming the functions of his or her office shall be deemed to have made any like oath or affirmation so required by this Constitution or any other law.\n(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), the Public Service Commission shall be reconstituted in accordance with section 82 and the Governor shall, as soon as practicable after the appointed day, make appointments to the Commission in accordance with that section.\n(5) The person who, immediately before the appointed day, holds the office of Chief Minister under the existing Constitution shall, on and after that day, hold the office of Premier in accordance with this Constitution.\n(6) In this section “the existing Constitution” means the Constitution set out in Schedule 2 to the Montserrat Constitution Order 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2474/article/118",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:47.374452+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}