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any alteration or amendment in the matter or substance of any 

 Ordinance or part of an Ordinance. 



(2.) Subjeft to the provisions of sub-seftion (4.) of this se£lion, in 

 every case where any such alteration or amendment is, in the opinion 

 of the Commissioner, desirable, the following procedure shall be ob- 

 served, that is to say, — 



(a.) The Commissioner shall draw up a memorandum setting 

 forth in a concise form the proposed alterations and amende 

 ments, and shall submit the same to the Governor ; 

 (b.J After the Governor has considered the said memorandum 

 and has made such additions thereto and alterations therein 

 as be may think fit, he shall cause a copy thereof to be fur- 

 nished to every member of the Legislative Council ; 

 (c.J At a convenient time thereafter the said memorandum shall 

 be laid before the Legislative Council in Committee, who 

 shall have a full opportunity of considering and discussing 

 the same, and the said Council shall deal with the same by 

 way of addition, omission, or alteration, as it shall think fit ; 

 Cd.J After the said memorandum has been dealt with by the 

 Legislative Council, it shall be transmitted to the Governor- 

 in-Chief, who shall have power to order that it be referred 

 back, as often as may be necessary, to the Legislative Council 

 with such direftions with respeft thereto as may appear to 

 him expedient ; 

 Ce.J The provisions of the last preceding paragraph shall, 

 mutatis mutandis, apply to Her Majesty's Principal Secre- 

 tary of State for the Colonies ; and 

 (f.J When the said memorandum has been finally settled, the 

 alterations and amendments of law thereby direfted to be 

 made shall be duly embodied by the Commissioner in the 

 Ordinances to which they respeftively relate. 

 (3,) Any memorandum of proposed alterations and amendments may 

 have reference to one Ordinance or to more Ordinances than one. 



(4.) In any case where an Ordinance, whether consolidated or not, re. 

 quires such considerable alterations and amendments as to involve its 

 entire recasting, the Commissioner shall prepare a fresh draft Ordin- 

 ance, which shall be submitted to the Legislative Council and dealt 

 with in the ordinary way. 



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