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Power of commissioner to omit. 4. (1) In the preparation of the revised edition, the commissioner shall have power to omit—

(a) all Ordinances, or parts of Ordinances, which have been expressly repealed or which have expired or have become spent or have had their effect;

(b) all repealing provisions contained in Ordinances and all tables and lists of repealed Ordinances, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise;

(c) all preambles to Ordinances, where such omission can, in the opinion of the commissioner, conveniently be made;

(d) all provisions prescribing the date when an Ordinance or part of an Ordinance is to come into operation, where such omission can, in the opinion of the commissioner, conveniently be made;

(e) all amending Ordinances or parts thereof, where the amendments effected thereby have been embodied by the commissioner in the Ordinance to which they relate; and

(f) all enacting clauses.

(2) Any Ordinance or part thereof omitted from the revised edition in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) may be proved by the production of any copy thereof by which the same could have been proved before the effective date.

Other powers of commissioner. 5. The commissioner shall, in addition to the powers conferred by section 4, have power—

(a) to transfer to subsidiary legislation any part of an Ordinance which can more conveniently be included as subsidiary legislation made under that Ordinance or under any other Ordinance;

(b) to arrange the grouping and sequence of Ordinances;

(c) to make such formal alterations to any Ordinance as are necessary or expedient for the purpose of securing uniformity of expression;

(d) to consolidate into one Ordinance any two or more Ordinances or any number of Ordinances in pari materia, making such alterations as are thereby rendered necessary or expedient and affixing such date thereto as may seem most convenient;

(e) to divide any Ordinance into two or more Ordinances and to make such amendments, including the supplying of titles, or the alteration of existing titles, as are thereby rendered necessary;