Sierra Leone Independence Act 1961

Section 1.

SECOND SCHEDULE U.K. Legislative Powers in Sierra Leone

1 U.K. The M1 Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, shall not apply to any law made on or after the appointed day by the legislature of Sierra Leone.

Marginal Citations

M1 1865 c. 63.

2 U.K. No law and no provision of any law made on or after the appointed day 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 6 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 Sierra Leone or any part thereof.

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

4 Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, sections seven hundred and thirty-five and seven hundred and thirty-six of the M2 Merchant Shipping Act 1894, shall be construed as though references therein to the legislature of a British possession did not include references to the legislature of Sierra Leone.

Marginal Citations

M2 1894 c. 60.

5 U.K. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, section four of the M3 Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 (which requires certain laws to be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure or to contain a suspending clause) and so much of section seven of that Act as requires the approval of Her Majesty in Council to any rules of court for regulating the practice and procedure of a Colonial Court of Admiralty shall cease to have effect in Sierra Leone.

Marginal Citations

M3 1890 c. 27.

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

his paragraph, the expression “the constitutional provisions” means this Act, any Order in Council made before the appointed day which revokes Parts II to VI of the M4 Sierra Leone (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958, and the Sierra Leone Protectorate Orders in Council, 1951 to 1960, and any law, or instrument made under a law, of the legislature of Sierra Leone made on or after that day which amends, modifies, re-enacts with or without amendment or modification, or makes different provision in lieu of, any of the provisions of this Act, that Order in Council or any such law or instrument previously made.

Marginal Citations

M4 S.I. 1958 No. 1259