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West Indies Act 1967

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Section 4.

SCHEDULE 1Legislative Powers of Associated States

1Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule—

(a)the [1865 c. 63.] Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 shall not apply to any law made on or after the appointed day by the legislature of an associated state, and

(b)no law and no provision of any law made on or after the appointed day by any such legislature shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act,

and accordingly the powers of the legislature of an associated state shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as it has effect as part of the law of that state.

2The legislature of an associated state shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

3Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this Schedule—

(a)sections 735 and 736 of the [1894 c. 60.] Merchant Shipping Act 1894 shall be construed as if references therein to the legislature of a British possession did not include references to the legislature of any associated state ; and

(b)section 4 of the [1890 c. 27.] Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 (which requires certain laws to be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure or to contain a suspending clause) and so much of section 7 of that Act as requires the approval of Her Majesty in Council to any rules of court for regulating the practice and procedure of a Colonial Court of Admiralty shall cease to have effect in each of the associated states.

4(1)The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this Schedule, but without prejudice to the exercise of any power conferred by section 10 of this Act.

(2)The legislature of an associated state shall not have power (whether in pursuance of any provision contained in a Constitution Order in accordance with section 5(2) of this Act or otherwise) to repeal or amend, or make any law repugnant to.—

(a)this Act;

(b)any Act, or enactment contained in an Act, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in so far as it relates to nationality or citizenship ;

(c)any Act, or enactment contained in an Act, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in so far as it relates to the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles ;

(d)any Act, or enactment contained in an Act, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which extends to that state in accordance with section 3(2) of this Act; or

(e)any Order in Council made by virtue of section 7(2) of this Act in so far as it has effect as part of the law of that state.

(3)Without prejudice to the last preceding sub-paragraph, the legislature of an associated state shall not have power (whether in pursuance of any provision contained in a Constitution Order in accordance with section 5(2) of this Act or otherwise) to make any law whereby—

(a)the Government of that state would be authorised or required to conduct any external affairs, except in so far as, by arrangements made in accordance with the next following sub-paragraph, that Government may be authorised to conduct any external affairs on behalf of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, or

(b)the Government of that state would be authorised or required to restrict or otherwise interfere with the conduct by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of defence or of external affairs.

(4)The arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a) of this paragraph are any arrangements which may be made between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of an associated state authorising the latter Government on behalf of the former Government to conduct external affairs in respect of such matters or classes of matters, and subject to any such exceptions, limitations and conditions, as may be specified in the arrangements.

(5)Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall not have effect in relation to any law which, in accordance with the preceding provisions of this paragraph, the legislature of an associated state has no power to make.

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