Revision of revised edition. 13. (1) As soon as practicable after the first day of January in every year after the effective date, the Attorney General shall, subject to subsection (3) and to the powers of omission under subsection (1) of section 4 conferred on him by subsection (5),—
- (a) cause to be prepared and published in the form of a separate booklet, a new revised edition of any Ordinance that has been amended during the period of twelve months ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December;
- (b) cause to be prepared and published in the form of separate booklets any new Ordinances enacted during the said period, other than Ordinances the sole or substantial effect of which was to amend other Ordinances;
- (c) cause to be prepared and published in the form of a booklet, either separately or together with any other such enactment or instrument, a new revised edition of any imperial enactment, treaty or convention already included in the revised edition that has been amended or varied during the said period;
- (d) cause to be published booklets containing such imperial enactments, treaties or conventions enacted, made or agreed to during the said period as he considers may usefully be published; and
- (e) cause to be prepared and published a new table of contents and index to the revised edition, together with a chronological list of Ordinances and a list of the current editions of the laws.
(2) In any booklet published pursuant to subsection (1), the law shall be stated as it was on the preceding thirty-first day of December and shall contain at the beginning thereof the year of that thirty-first day of December.
(3) The Attorney General shall not be required to prepare or publish a booklet containing a new revised edition of any Ordinance, imperial enactment, treaty or convention that has been amended or varied if he considers that the amendments or variations are not sufficiently extensive to justify the preparation and publication thereof, but all such amendments and variations shall be contained in a separate booklet of minor amendments and indicated in the annual index.
(4) The Attorney General shall transmit to the Governor a copy of every booklet published under this section and with effect from such date as the Governor may specify by notice in the Gazette any such booklet containing any Ordinance shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper laws of the Colony in respect of that Ordinance.
