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(3)For the purposes of the making, on or after the appointed day, of Orders in Council under the M1West Indies Act 1962 and for the purposes of the making on or after that day of grants under section eight of that Act, Jamaica shall be treated as not being a colony within the meaning of that Act.
(4)Subsection (3) of section five of the M2West Indies Act 1962 (which enables provision made by Order in Council for the government of the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands to include provision for the performance of functions by the legislature or other authorities of Jamaica, or by any court of Jamaica) is hereby repealed as from the appointed day:
Provided that this subsection shall not affect—
(a)the operation (whether as part of the law of Jamaica or as part of the law of the Cayman Islands or of the Turks and Caicos Islands) of any Order in Council made before the appointed day, or
(b)the exercise, on or after the appointed day, of any power to revoke or vary an Order in Council made before that day, in so far as any such Order forms part of the law of the Cayman Islands or of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
(5)As from the appointed day, the provisions specified in the Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in that Schedule, . . . F3
(6)The last preceding subsection shall not extend to Jamaica as part of the law thereof.
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F1S. 3(1) repealed by Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30, SIF 115:1), Sch. 3
F2S. 3(2) repealed (28.3.2009 for specified purposes) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)
F3Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. VI
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