Ο περί Κυπριακής Νομοθεσίας (Αναθεωρημένη Έκδοσις) Νόμος του 1959 (24/1959)

1. This Law may be cited as the Cyprus Laws (Revised Edition) Law, 1959.

2. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires-

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner appointed under section 3;

“revised edition” means the new and revised edition of the Laws of Cyprus to be prepared under the authority of this Law;

“the 1949 edition” means the revised edition of the Laws of Cyprus prepared by Sir Harry Herbert Trusted, Q.C., under the authority of the Cyprus Laws (New Edition) Law, 1950.

3.-(1) Criton George Tornaritis, Q.C., is hereby appointed Commissioner for the purpose of preparing the revised edition of the Laws of Cyprus.

(2) In case the Commissioner shall from any cause be unable to act before the revised edition shall have been completed, the Governor may appoint another fit and proper person to be Commissioner in his stead.

4. In the preparation of the revised edition the Commissioner shall have the following powers:-

(a) to omit-

(i) any Law or part thereof which has been repealed expressly or by necessary implication, or which has expired or has become spent or has had its effect;

(ii) any repealing enactment contained in any Law and any table and list of repealed enactments whether contained in a Schedule or otherwise;

(iii) any preamble to any Law where such omission can, in the opinion of the Commissioner, conveniently be made;

(iv) any introductory words of enactment in any Law or section of a Law;

(v) any enactment prescribing the date when a Law or part of a Law is to come into force where such omission can, in the opinion of the Commissioner, conveniently be made;

(vi) any amending Law or part thereof where the amendment effected by such Law or part thereof has been embodied by the Commissioner in the Law to which they relate or in any other Law;

(vii) any Appropriation Law and any Law or part of any Law so far as that Law effects any change in the title or designation of any person or office:

Provided that the provisions of section 10 of the Interpretation Law shall apply to such omissions in the same way as if the Law or enactments omitted had been repealed;

(b) to consolidate into one Law any two or more Laws or part thereof in pari materia making such alterations as are thereby necessary and affixing such date thereto as may seem most convenient;

(c) to alter-

(i) the order of sections in any Law and, in all cases where it may be necessary so do, to re-number the sections;

(ii) the form or arrangement of any section of any Law by transposing words, by combining it in whole or in part with another section or other sections or by dividing it into sub-sections;

(iii) the short or long title of any Law and to add a short title to any Law which may require it;

(iv) any marginal note or supply or omit such note;

(d) to divide Laws, whether consolidated or not, into parts of other divisions;

(e) to transfer any provision contained in a Law from that Law to any other Law to which it more properly belongs;

(f) to make such formal alterations as to names, offices, titles, currency, localities and otherwise, as may be necessary to bring any Law into conformity with conditions and circumstances obtaining or existing in Cyprus;

(g) to correct cross-references and grammatical and typographical mistakes in the existing copies of Laws and, for that purpose to make omissions, verbal additions, variations and alterations;

(h) to incorporate in any Law any amendment, addition or alteration made to any Schedule, Form or other part thereof by any authority under powers conferred by that Law;

(i) to make such alterations not touching the substance of any Law as may be considered necessary to bring such Law into conformity with the revised edition of the Laws;

(j) to make such adaptations of or amendments to any enactments as may appear necessary or proper as a consequence of the evolution of the Commonwealth of Nations or change in the constitution of any part of the Commonwealth of Nations;

(k) to supply a table of contents and index;

(l) to shorten and simplify the phraseology of any Law;

(m) to incorporate in any Law any amendment of any Schedule thereto lawfully made by subsidiary legislation;

(n) to do all things relating to form and method which may be necessary for the perfecting of the revised edition:

Provided that the powers conferred upon the Commissioner by this section shall not be taken to imply any power in him to make any alteration or amendment in the matter or substance of any Law or part thereof.

5.-(1) It shall not be necessary for the Commissioner to include in the revised edition the Laws set out in Part I of the First Schedule:

Provided that, anything to the contrary in this Law notwithstanding, the said Laws shall remain in force until the same shall have been repealed, either expressly or by necessary implication, or shall have expired or become spent or had their effect:

Provided further that the omission from the revised edition of any Law omitted during and for the purpose of the preparation of the revised edition shall not affect the validity of any existing Order-in-Council, order, proclamation, regulations, rules, bye-laws, notice or register made, issued or kept under the authority of any Law so omitted, but such Order-in-Council, order, proclamation, regulations, rules, bye-laws, notice or register, so far as they are not inconsistent with any Law for the time being in force, shall continue in force until otherwise provided.

(2) The Laws set out in Part II of the First Schedule are hereby repealed; such repeal shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st April, 1959, and the said Laws shall not be incorporated by the Commissioner in the revised edition.

6. The Laws set out in the first column of the Second Schedule are hereby amended in the manner specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

Such amendments shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st April, 1959, and the said Laws shall be incorporated in the revised edition as so amended.

7. The revised edition shall, subject to sections 5 and 6 and the other provisions of this Law, contain the Laws of Cyprus in force, or enacted and not yet brought into force, on the 1st April, 1959:

Provided that if any such Law is repealed and replaced by any other Law after the 1st April, 1959, but before the approval of the revised edition under section 9 the Commissioner may, if that can conveniently be done, omit from the revised edition the Law so repealed and incorporate therein the Law so replacing the same.

8.-(1) Each Law shall form a separate Chapter and the Chapters shall be numbered consecutively and arranged under such titles as the Commissioner may determine and below the number of each Chapter shall be set out the subject matter of the Chapter.

(2) The number and year of the principal Law and of each amending or incorporated Law, if any, shall be set out in the margin at the commencement of each Chapter.

(3) The date of enactment of the principal Law shall be set out immediately below the long title of the Law.

(4) Each Chapter shall be printed by such person as may be selected by the Governor and published in a separate booklet; each such booklet shall contain at the beginning thereof the number and subject matter of the Chapter and the figures and word “1959 Edition”.

The person so selected shall be deemed to be the Government Printer of the revised edition within the meaning of the Evidence (Colonial Statutes) Act, 1907.

(5) The Commissioner shall cause the various booklets which have been complied in accordance with the provisions of this section to be securely bound together in such number of volumes as he may consider necessary; the booklets shall be bound in such manner as will enable any booklet to be removed and replaced at any time.

(6) The Commissioner shall cause one complete set of the booklets to be bound together in volumes in a permanent manner; the set of booklets bound as aforesaid shall be dealt with under the provisions of section 13.

9. The Governor may, by proclamation published in the Gazette, approve the revised edition and order that it shall come into force from such date as may be specified in the proclamation:

Provided that the Governor may, before the completion and publication of the revised edition, approve, by proclamation published in the Gazette, any Chapter, compiled and printed under the provisions of this Law, specified in the proclamation and order that such Chapter shall come into force from such date as may be specified in the proclamation.

10. Subject to the provisions of section 5 and 6 the revised edition, when approved and brought into force as in section 9, shall be, without any question whatsoever, in all courts and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper book of Laws of Cyprus in respect of the Laws therein contained:

Provided that if by any proclamation made under the proviso to section 9 any Chapter is approved and brought into force under the provisions of that section such Chapter shall be, without any question whatsoever, in all courts and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only Law in respect of the subject matter to which it relates:

Provided further that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any Law which, before such approval, may be enacted for the repeal, alteration or amendment of any earlier Law, although such earlier Law has been included in the revised edition.

11. All public instruments, forms and appointments made or issued under any Law included in the revised edition and in force or use on the date of its coming into force shall continue in force and use until revoked or replaced and references in any such public instrument, form or appointment to the Law under which it is made, or to any other Law, shall be deemed to apply to the corresponding Law in the revised edition.

12. Where in any Law, public instrument or in any document of whatsoever kind, reference is made to any Law repealed or otherwise affected by or under the operation of this Law, such reference shall where necessary and practicable, be deemed to extend and apply to the corresponding Law in the revised edition.

13. One copy each of the volumes of the revised edition, bound under sub-section (6) of section 8 shall be signed by the Commissioner and by the Governor and shall be sealed with the public seal of Cyprus and deposited among the records of the Supreme Court.

14. Nothing in this Law shall be construed as bringing into force any of the Laws included in the revised edition before the date on which such Law, if it had not been so included, would have come into force.