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The Pitcairn Constitution Order 2010
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37.—(1) In the making of laws for Pitcairn the Governor shall observe, so far as is practicable, the following rules.
(2) All laws shall be styled “Ordinances” and the words of enactment shall be “Enacted by the Governor of the Islands of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno”.
(3) Matters having no proper relation to each other shall not be provided for by the same law.
(4) No law shall contain anything foreign to what the title of the law imports.
(5) No provision having indefinite duration shall be included in any law expressed to have limited duration.
(6) All laws shall be distinguished by titles, and shall be divided into successive sections consecutively numbered, and to every section there shall be annexed a short indication of its contents.
(7) All laws shall be numbered consecutively in a separate series for each year commencing with the number one, and the position of each law in the series shall be determined with reference to the day on which the Governor made the law.
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