Ceylon Independence Act 1947

Section 1.

FIRST SCHEDULELegislative Powers of Ceylon

1(1)The [28 & 29 Vict. c. 63.] Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to .any law made after the appointed day by the Parliament of Ceylon.

(2)No law and no provision of any law made after the appointed day by the Parliament of Ceylon shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the Parliament of Ceylon shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as the same is part of the law of Ceylon.

2The Parliament of Ceylon shall have full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation.

3Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, sections seven hundred and thirty-five and seven hundred and thirty-six of the [57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.] Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall be construed as though reference therein to the legislature of a British possession did not include reference to the Parliament of Ceylon.

4Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, section four of the [53 & 54 Vict. c. 27.] Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 (which requires certain laws to be reserved for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure or to contain a suspending clause), and so much of section seven of that Act as requires the approval of His 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 Ceylon.