REVISION OF THE LAWS

CHAPTER 1:02
REVISION OF THE LAWS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Commissioner: Law Revision Officer

    4.    Duties of Commissioner and Law Revision Officer

    5.    Publication of the Laws of Malawi

    6.    Periodical revision of Laws of Malawi

    7.    Laws of Malawi to constitute sole and proper version of laws

    8.    Contents of Laws of Malawi

    9.    Power to omit certain laws from the Laws of Malawi

    10.    Validity of laws not included in the Laws of Malawi

    11.    Powers in respect of preparation of pages

    12.    No power to make amendments of substance

    13.    Construction of reference to repealed, etc., written law

    14.    Power of Minister to rectify errors by order

15 of 1968
51 of 1971
9 of 1977
20 of 1978
11 of 1989

    An Act to provide for revisions of the Laws of Malawi and for matters connected therewith

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Revision of the Laws Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—

    “Commissioner” means the Law Revision Commissioner appointed by the Minister under section 3 (1);

    “in force” in relation to an Act, means enacted and brought into operation, and in relation to subsidiary legislation, means made and brought into operation;

    “Law Revision Officer” means the Law Revision Officer designated as such pursuant to section 3 (2);

    “Law Revision Order” means an order made by the Minister under section 5;

    “revision date” in respect of the first edition of the Laws of Malawi prepared and published under this Act, means, for Acts, the 1st January, 1968, and for subsidiary legislation, the 4th August, 1967, and in respect of subsequent revisions of the Laws of Malawi, means the 1st January in each year, or such other date, in any year, as the Minister may, by order, appoint as a revision date.

3.    Commissioner: Law Revision Officer

    (1) The Minister may, from time to time, appoint a Commissioner for the purposes of this Act, who shall be known as the Law Revision Commissioner.

    (2) There shall be a Law Revision Officer who shall be a public officer designated as such by the Minister.

4.    Duties of Commissioner and Law Revision Officer

    (1) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner, in accordance with this Act, to prepare and publish, or cause to be prepared and published, an edition to be known as the Laws of Malawi, containing all the written laws required to be contained therein.

    (2) It shall be the duty of the Law Revision Officer from time to time, as directed by the Attorney General, to maintain and revise the Laws of Malawi.

5.    Publication of the Laws of Malawi

    (1) The Laws of Malawi shall be published in looseleaf form, or such other form as the Commissioner may determine, and shall comprise only such pages as may be authorized to be included therein by the Minister under subsection (2).

9 of 1977

    (2) The Minister shall, by order, give authority for the inclusion in the Laws of Malawi of each and every page to be comprised therein, and may similarly authorize the replacement of pages therein and the removal of pages therefrom, and no page shall be deemed to form part of the Laws of Malawi until or unless it is so authorized.

    (3) Every page comprised in the Laws of Malawi shall bear a reference to the Law Revision Order by which its inclusion therein was authorized:

9 of 1977

    Provided that where pursuant to section 83 (1) of the Customs and Excise Act, any Order is made prescribing complete new tariffs under the said Act, and such Order is published in the Gazette as a separate Supplement thereto in a looseleaf or other form approved by the Commissioner, and the said separate Supplement is, by a Law Revision Order, made at any time after such publication, incorporated in its published form into the Laws of Malawi as a separate Supplementary Volume of such Laws of Malawi, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any pages comprised in such Supplementary Volume on the date of its said incorporation under such Law Revision Order, but shall apply to any pages included therein under the authority of any later Law Revision Order.

    (4) A Law Revision Order may authorize the inclusion in the Laws of Malawi of pages on which are reproduced a written law although such written law may not have been in force on the last preceding revision date, provided that an instrument bringing that written law into operation has been published prior to the publication of such Law Revision Order.

6.    Periodical revision of Laws of Malawi

    (1) As…