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3 Consequential modification of other enactments.U.K.

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(2)As from the appointed day—

(a)the expression “colony” in the M1Army Act 1955, the M2Air Force Act 1955, and the M3Naval Discipline Act 1957, shall not include Nigeria or any part thereof; and

(b)in the definitions of “Commonwealth force” in subsection (1) of section two hundred and twenty- five and subsection (1) of section two hundred and twenty-three respectively of the said Acts of 1955, and in the definition of “Commonwealth country” in subsection (1) of section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act of 1957—

(i)the word “or” (being in the said Acts of 1955, that word in the last place where it occurs in those definitions) shall br omitted; and

(ii)at the end there shall be added the words “or Nigeria”.

(3)Any Order in Council made on or after the appointed day under either of the said Acts of 1955 providing for that Act to continue in force beyond the date on which it would otherwise expire shall not operate to continue that Act in force beyond that date as part of the law of Nigeria or any part thereof.

(4)As from the appointed day, the provisions specified in the Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in that Schedule, . . . F2

Provided that this subsection shall not extend to Nigeria or any part thereof as part of the law thereof.

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C1The text of s. 3(2)(b),sch. 2 paras. 2, 3, 6(a), 7, 8, 15 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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