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Revised Edition of the Laws Act 1976

No. 47 of 1976.

Revised Edition of the Laws Act 1976.
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INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

No. 47 of 1976.

Revised Edition of the Laws Act 1976.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

AN ACT

entitled

Revised Edition of the Laws Act 1976,

Being an Act to provide for the preparation of the initial Revised Laws of Papua New Guinea, to be incorporated and read as one with the Revision of the Laws Act 1973.

1. COMMISSIONER FOR THE REVISED LAWS.

(1) The Head of State, acting on advice, may appoint a person to be the Commissioner for the Revised Edition of the Laws of Papua New Guinea.

(2) The Commissioner is responsible for the preparation, as at the date fixed under Section 4(2) of the Principal Act, of the Revised Laws.

2. POWERS, ETC., OF COMMISSIONER.

For the purposes of the performance of his functions under Section 1(2), the Commissioner appointed under Section I has all the powers, functions, duties and responsibilities of the First Legislative Counsel under the Principal Act, and references in that Act to the First Legislative Counsel shall be read as references to the Commissioner accordingly.

3. INCLUSION OF THIS ACT, ETC., IN THE REVISED EDITION.

This Act, and any appointment made under Section 1, shall be included in the text of the Revised Edition in some convenient place following the Revision of the Laws Act 1973.

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