SCHEDULES

Section 1(2).

SCHEDULE 1 U.K. Legislative Powers of Belize

1 U.K.The M1 Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 shall not apply to any law made on or after Independence Day by the legislature of Belize.

Marginal Citations

M1 1865 c. 63.

2 U.K.No law and no provision of any law made on or after Independence Day by that 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, including this Act, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and accordingly the powers of that legislature shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as it is part of the law of Belize.

3 U.K.The legislature of Belize shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

4 U.K.Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this Schedule—

F1 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) section 4 of the M2 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 Belize.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 para. 4(a) repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(1), 316(2), Sch. 12 (with ss. 312(1), Sch. 14 para. 1)

Marginal Citations

M2 1890 c. 27.