Article 5 Existing laws.

Subject to the provisions of this section, the existing laws shall have effect on and after the appointed day as if they had been made in pursuance of the Constitution and shall be read and construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the Constitution.

The Governor may, by regulations published in theGazette, at any time within twelve months of the appointed day make such modifications or adaptations to any existing law as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for bringing that law into conformity with the provisions of the Constitution or otherwise for giving effect or enabling effect to be given to those provisions; and any existing law shall have effect accordingly from such day (not being earlier than the appointed day) as may be specified in any such regulations.

Regulations made under this section may be amended or revoked in relation to any existing law affected thereby by any authority competent to amend or revoke that law.

In this section “existing laws” means laws and instruments (other than Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instruments made thereunder) having effect as part of the law of the Turks and Caicos Islands immediately before the appointed day and as if the Turks and Caicos Islands (Laws) (Interim Amendment) Order 1986^f1 had not been made.