3. Section 10 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Annual revision of revised edition of Acts |
10.—(1) As soon as practicable after 1st January of the year in which the revised edition of Acts comes into force and thereafter after 1st January of each succeeding year, the Commissioners shall, subject to this section and with the intent that the revised edition of Acts shall be annually revised, cause to be published —(a) | a revised edition of any Act which has been amended during the period of 12 months ending on the preceding 31st December (referred to in this section as the relevant period); | (b) | any new Act enacted during the relevant period, other than Acts the sole or substantial effect of which was to amend other Acts; | (c) | either separately or together with any other such enactment or instrument, a new revised edition of any treaty or convention and other instruments already included in the revised edition of Acts which has been amended during the relevant period; | (d) | such treaties, conventions and other instruments enacted, made or agreed to during the relevant period as they consider may usefully be published; and | (e) | a new table of contents and index to the revised edition of Acts, a chronological table of Acts and a list of the latest edition of each booklet containing an Act included in the revised edition of Acts and, in the case of Acts which have been published or revised in loose-leaf form, a lists of such Acts and the pages thereof which have been revised. |
(2) The Commissioners may from time to time cause to be published a new revised edition of any Act, treaty, convention or other instrument which has not been amended during the relevant period. |
(3) Where the Commissioners consider that the amendments that have been made to any Act, treaty, convention or other instrument during the relevant period are not sufficiently extensive to justify the preparation and publication of a new revised edition thereof, they may defer the preparation and publication of such revised edition until such time as they consider that it is necessary or expedient to do so. |
(4) The Commissioners may from time to time cause to be prepared and published a new revised edition of any Act, treaty, convention or other instrument if they consider that any amendments which have been made thereto are sufficiently extensive to justify the immediate preparation and publication of such revised edition or that it is necessary or expedient to do so. |
(5) The Commissioners may cause any new Act, treaty, convention or other instrument which has been enacted, made or agreed to, as the case may be, during the relevant period or the revised edition of any Act, treaty, convention or other instrument, to be published in the form of a booklet or in loose-leaf form. |
(6) Where the Commissioners have caused any new or revised edition of any Act, treaty, convention or other instrument to be published in loose-leaf form, they shall not thereafter be bound to prepare and publish any subsequent annual revision of such Act, treaty, convention or other instrument upon any amendment being made thereto but may instead prepare and publish only such page or pages of such Act, treaty, convention or other instrument as may require replacement by virtue of the amendment. |
(7) The Commissioners may include in any booklet or loose-leaf edition of any Act, treaty, convention or other instrument or in any loose pages published under this section such notes, indexes, instructions or other information as they consider useful.”. |
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