Tanganyika Independence Act 1961

Section 1.

FIRST SCHEDULE U.K. Legislative Powers of Tanganyika

1 U.K. The M1 Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, shall not apply to any law made by the legislature of Tanganyika.

Marginal Citations

M1 1865 c. 63.

2 U.K. No law and no provision of any law made by that legislature shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including this Act, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and, subject to paragraph 5 of this Schedule, the powers of that legislature shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as it is part of the law of Tanganyika.

3 U.K. The legislature of Tanganyika shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

F1 4 U.K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 para. 4 repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(1), 316(2), Sch. 12 (with ss. 312(1), Sch. 14 para. 1)

5 U.K. Nothing in this Act shall confer on the legislature of Tanganyika any power to repeal, amend or modify the constitutional provisions otherwise than in such manner as may be provided for in those provisions.

In this paragraph “the constitutional provisions” means this Act, any Order in Council made before the ed day which revokes the Tanganyika Orders in Council, 1920 to 1961 and the Tanganyika (National Assembly) Orders in Council, 1926 to 1961, and any law, or instrument made under a law, of the legislature of Tanganyika made on or after appointed day which amends, modifies, re-enacts with or without amendment or modification, or makes different provision in lieu of, any provisions of this Act, that Order in Council or any such law or instrument previously made.