West Indies Act 1967

15 Supplementary provisions as to powers under ss. 13 and 14

(1) An Order in Council under section 13 or section 14 of this Act may be made before, and in anticipation of, the event to which it relates, but shall not be so made as to come into operation before the date of that event.

(2) Where an Order in Council under either of those sections is made after the date of the event to which it relates, the Order may be made with retrospective effect as from that date or any later date.

(3) Subject to the next following subsection, any provision made by an Order in Council under section 13 of this Act with respect to an enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or with respect to an instrument having effect by virtue of such an enactment, and any provision made by an Order in Council under section 14 of this Act with respect to any law described in the Order, shall, except in so far as the Order otherwise provides, have effect as part of the law of every territory outside the United Kingdom to which the enactment or instrument in question extends, or, as the case may be, of every territory outside the United Kingdom whose law includes that law, as well as having effect as part of the law of the United Kingdom.

(4) Any provision made by an Order in Council as mentioned in the last preceding subsection—

(a) shall not have effect as part of the law of any associated state unless either the Order in Council is made at the request and with the consent of that state or the provision so made is one which (in accordance with Schedule 1 to this Act) the legislature of that state has no power to make at the date on which the Order is made, and

(b) shall not have effect as part of the law of any territory if it is a territory for whose government Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have no responsibility at that date.