Paragraph 38 Certain laws not to be made without instructions

The Governor shall not, without having previously obtained instructions through a Secretary of State, make any law within any of the following classes, unless such law contains a clause suspending its operation until the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure on it—

(a)

any law whereby any grant of land or money, or other donation or gratuity, may be made to the Governor;

(b)

any law affecting the currency of Pitcairn or relating to the issue of banknotes;

(c)

any law the provisions of which shall appear to the Governor to be inconsistent with obligations imposed on the United Kingdom by treaty;

(d)

any law of an extraordinary nature and importance whereby Her Majesty’s prerogative, or the rights or property of Her subjects not residing in Pitcairn, or the trade, transport or communications of any territory under Her Majesty’s sovereignty may be prejudiced;

(e)

any law containing provisions which have been disallowed by Her Majesty;

but the Governor may, without such instructions and although the law contains no such suspending clause, enact any such law (except a law of the class referred to in paragraph (c)) if the Governor is satisfied that an urgent necessity exists requiring that law to be brought into immediate operation; and in any such case the Governor shall forthwith transmit a copy of the law to a Secretary of State together with his or her reasons for so enacting it.