§ Mr. J. FosterI beg to move, in page 4, line 8, after "by," to insert "the foregoing provisions of."
This is a very simple Amendment which is necessitated by the Amendment which immediately follows and stands on the Order Paper in my name in relation to Clause 5. There, it is proposed to add words which would allow the date to be fixed by Order in Council, and, therefore, this Amendment is consequential on the Amendment to Clause 5 which follows.
It is obvious that the provisions of Clause 3 (3), which provides that any power exercised by Order in Council shall be construed as including a power to revoke or vary the Order in Council, shall apply only to those Orders in Council made under Clause 2 and should not apply to the Order in Council fixing the date. We may have an Order in Council fixing the date having in itself the implied power of revoking that Order. For these technical reasons, the object of the Amendment is to restrict the power to revoke or vary Orders in Council to all Orders in Council made under this Bill other than the one that fixes the date.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
§ Clause 4 ordered to stand part of the Bill.