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2003 No. 456

CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIES

The Bermuda Constitution (Amendment) Order 2003

  Made 27th February 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 11th March 2003 
  Coming into force- -In accordance with section 1(4)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of February 2003

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue and, in exercise of the powers vested in Her in that behalf by section 1 of the Bermuda Constitution Act 1967[1] and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation, construction and commencement
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Bermuda Constitution (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall be construed as one with the Bermuda Constitution Order 1968[2] (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order").

    (2) The principal Order and this Order may be cited together as the Bermuda Constitution Orders 1968 to 2003.

    (3) In this Order, "the Constitution" means the Constitution set out in Schedule 2 to the principal Order.

    (4) This Order shall come into force on 12th March 2003, except for sections 3, 4 and 7 and the Schedule, which shall come into force upon the next dissolution of the Legislature thereafter.

Revocation
     2. Section 2 of the Bermuda Constitution (Amendment) Order 2001[3] is revoked.

Amendment of section 28 of Constitution
     3. Section 28 of the Constitution is amended by substituting the words "thirty-six" for the word "forty".

Replacement of section 52 of Constitution
     4. Section 52 of the Constitution is revoked and replaced by the following section -

Amendment of section 53 of Constitution
     5. Section 53 of the Constitution is amended -

Amendment of section 54 of Constitution
     6. Section 54 of the Constitution is amended -

Addition of new Second Schedule to Constitution
     7.  - (1) The new Second Schedule to the Constitution set out in the Schedule to this Order is inserted after the existing Schedule to the Constitution.

    (2) The existing Schedule to the Constitution is retitled "First Schedule to the Constitution of Bermuda", and references in the Constitution to that Schedule shall be construed accordingly.

Amendment of sections 31 and 57 of Constitution
     8.  - (1) Section 31 of the Constitution is amended in subsection (1)(c) by substituting the words "Commonwealth citizen (within the meaning of the British Nationality Act 1981)" for the words "British subject".

    (2) Section 57 of the Constitution is amended in subsection (3)(a) by substituting the words "Junior Ministers" for the words "Parliamentary Secretaries".

Transitional provision
     9. The Legislature may by law make such provision as it considers necessary or expedient in anticipation of the commencement of sections 3, 4 and 7 of, and the Schedule to, this Order.


A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


SCHEDULESection 7
The new Second Schedule to the Constitution is as follows.




EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Constitution of Bermuda to establish thirty-six single-member constituencies for elections to the House of Assembly. It thus gives effect to the recommendations of the Constituency Boundaries Commission which reported to the Governor of Bermuda in August 2002. The Order also makes some consequential amendments following the Bermuda Constitution (Amendment) Order 2001, and revokes section 2 of that Order (which established the Constituency Boundaries Commission which reported in August 2002).

Notes:

 [1] 1967 c. 63.back

[2] S.I. 1968/182, amended by S.I. 1968/463, 726, 1973/233, 1979/452, 1310, 1989/151, 2001/2579.back

[3] S.I. 2001/2579.back


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