Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962
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1962 No. 1550
CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC
TERRITORIES
The Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 196223rdJuly 1962
24thJuly 1962
Section 3 (2) of the Order in Council, and sections 80, 81. 94 (1) and (2), 103, 104, 111,124 and 125 (in part) of the ConstitutionSection 3 (2) of the Order in Council, and sections 80, 81. 94 (1) and (2), 103, 104, 111,124 and 125 (in part) of the Constitution—25thJuly 1962Remainder—Immediatelybefore the 6thAugust 1962
ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER
Section
1. Citation, commencement and interpretation.
2. Revocation.
3. Establishment of the Constitution.
4. Existing laws.
5. Finance.
6. House of Representatives.
7. First Standing Orders of Senate.
8. Remuneration of Members of Parliament, etc.
9. Clerks to Houses of Parliament and their staffs.
10. First Cabinet.
11. Parliamentary Secretaries.
12. Secretary to the Cabinet.
13. Supreme Court and Judges.
14. Pending Appeals.
15. Appeals from Cayman Islands and Turks and Gaicos Islands.
16. Remuneration of Auditor-General.
17. Existing officers.
18. Transitional provisions relating to Privy Council.
19. Transitional provisions relating to existing Commissions.
20. Transitional provisions for certain officers.
21. Alteration of this Order.
22. Interpretation.
FIRST SCHEDULE
ORDERS IN COUNCIL REVOKED BY THIS ORDER.
SECOND SCHEDULE
THE CONSTITUTION OF JAMAICA.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of July 1962
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by subsection (1) of section 5 of the West Indies Act, 1962(a) or otherwise in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
Citation commencement and interpretation.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 3 of this Order, (this Order shall come into operation immediately before the appointed day (in this Order referred to as "the commencement of this Order"):
Provided that where by or under this Order the Governor-General has power to make any appointment or to make any Order or to do any other thing for the purposes of this Order that power may be exercised by the Governor of the Colony of Jamaica at any time after the twenty-fourth day of July 1962 to such extent as may, in his opinion, be necessary or expedient to enable the Constitution established by this Order to function as from the commencement of this Order.
Revocations.
2.—(1) The Orders in Council specified in the First Schedule to this Order (hereinafter referred to as "the existing Orders") are hereby revoked.
(2) Notwithstanding the revocation of the existing Orders the following Regulations—
(a) the Public Service Regulations, 1961,
(b) the Judicial Service Regulations, 1961,
(c) the Police Service Regulations, 1961, and
(d) the Jamaica (Constitution) (Retirement of Entitled Officers) Regulations, 1961,
made (thereunder and all amendments thereto shall continue in force subject to such adaptations or modifications as may be made thereto by or under section 4 of this Order and subject to amendment or repeal by the authority having power to amend or revoke the same.
(3) With effect from the commencement of this Order, paragraph (f) (which specifies Jamaica) of the definition of "the Territories" in subsection (1) of section 2 of the British Caribbean Court of Appeal Order in Council 1962(a) is revoked.
Establishment of the Constitution.
3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section and the other provisions of this Order, the Constitution of Jamaica set out in the Second Schedule to this Order (in this Order referred to as "the Constitution") shall come into force in Jamaica at the commencement of this Order.
(2) This subsection and the following provisions of the Constitution—
(a) sections 80 and 81,
(b) subsections (1) and (2) of section 94,
(c) sections 103 and 104,
(d) section 111,
(e) section 124,
(f) section 125 to the extent only as to enable a Director of Public Prosecutions to be appointed before the appointed day,
shall come into force in Jamaica on the twenty-fifth day of July 1962:
Provided that in relation to any period prior to the appointed day references in these provisions of the Constitution—
(a) to the Governor-General and the Prime Minister shall be construed as references to the Governor and Premier respectively of the Colony of Jamaica;
(a) S.I. 1962/1086 (1962 II, p. 1247).
(b) to Parliament and to the House of Representatives shall be construed as references to the Legislature and the House of Representatives constituted under the existing Orders; and
(c) to the Chief Justice or a Judge of the Supreme Court shall be construed as references to the Chief Justice or a Judge of the Supreme Court holding office under the existing Orders.
Existing laws
4.—(1) All laws which are in force in Jamaica immediately before the appointed day shall (subject to amendment or repeal by the authority having power to amend or repeal any such law) continue in force on and after that day, and all laws which have been made before that day but have not previously been brought into operation may (subject as aforesaid) be brought into force, in accordance with any provision in that behalf, on or after that day, but all such laws shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be construed, in relation to any period beginning on or after the appointed day, with such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this Order.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding subsection, in any law which continues in force on and after the appointed day or which, having been made before that day, is brought into force on or after that day, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) references to the Governor shall, in relation to any period beginning on or after the appointed day, be construed as references to the Governor-General;
(b) references to the Legislature or to either chamber thereof shall, in relation to any period as aforesaid, be construed as references to the Parliament, or to the corresponding House thereof, established by the Constitution;
(c) references to any office (or to the person holding or acting in it) connected with either chamber of the Legislature shall, in relation to any such period as aforesaid, be construed as references to the corresponding office (or the person holding or acting in it) constituted by or under the Constitution;
(d) references to the Cabinet, to the Premier or to any other Minister shall, in relation to any such period as aforesaid, be construed as references respectively to the Cabinet established by the Constitution, to the Prime Minister appointed for the time being under the Constitution and to the corresponding Minister so appointed;
(e) references to the Secretary to the Cabinet shall, in relation to any such period as aforesaid, be construed as references to the Secretary to the Cabinet established by the Constitution;
(f) references to the Privy Council shall, in relation to any such period as aforesaid, be construed as references to the Privy Council established by the Constitution;
(g) references to the Judicial Service Commission, the Public Service Commission or the Police Service Commission shall, in relation to any such period as aforesaid, be construed as references respectively to the Judicial Service Commission, the Public Service Commission or the Police Service Commission established by the Constitution;
(h) references to any other office (or to the person holding or acting in it) constituted by or under the existing Orders or to any other authority or body so constituted shall, in relation to any such period as aforesaid, be construed as references respectively to the corresponding office (or to the person holding or acting in it) or the corresponding authority or body constituted by or under the Constitution.
(3) For the purposes of this Order the Senate is the corresponding House to the Legislative Council constituted under the existing Orders.
(4) The Governor-General may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare—
(a) for the purposes of paragraphs (c) and (h) of subsection (2) of this section, what is the corresponding office, authority or body referred to in either of those paragraphs; and
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (d) of that subsection, who is the corresponding Minister referred to in that paragraph.
(5) (a) The Governor-General may, by Order made at any time within a period of two years commencing with the appointed day and published in the Gazette, make such adaptations and modifications in any law which continues in force in Jamaica on and after the appointed day, or which having been made before that day, is brought into force on or after that day, as appear to him to be necessary or expedient by reason of anything contained in this Order.
(b) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) of this subsection any Order made thereunder may transfer to the Director of Public Prosecutions any function by any such law vested in the Attorney-General.
(c) An Order made by the Governor-General under this subsection shall have effect from such date, not earlier than the appointed day, as may be specified therein.
Finance.
5. Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding section and for the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that any resolution of the House of Representatives passed before the appointed day and any law enacted by the Legislature before that day (whether such resolution was passed or such law enacted before or after the making of this Order) may have effect for the purposes of section 117 of the Constitution as if they were respectively a resolution of the House of Representatives established by the Constitution or a law enacted...
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