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 Part 2-Transitional Provisions 123. Save as otherwise provided in this Constitution, all laws Saving for in force in Rhodesia immediately prior to the appointed day shall existing remain in full force and effect on and after the appointed day, subject to the exercise of any power to amend or repeal the same as is vested in the Legislature or other authority. 1 124. (1) The Officer Administering the Government may by Adaptation order published in the Gazette provide that any existing law shall of existing be read and construed with such adaptations and modifications as may appear to the Officer Administering the Government to be necessary or expedient for bringing the provisions of that law into conformity with the provisions of this Constitution or otherwise for giving effect or enabling effect to be given to those provisions, and any existing law shall have effect accordingly from such date as may be specified in the order, not being a date earlier than the appointed day (2) In this section, "existing law" means a law in force in Rhodesia immediately before the appointed day that was enacted by the Legislature of Southern Rhodesia or of the Federation and includes any instrument in force as aforesaid and made in exercise of a power conferred by the Legislature of Southern Rhodesia or the Federation or by the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Dissolution) Order in Council, 1963. (3) An order made under this section may be revoked or amended by a further order made under this section or in relation to any law or instrument affected thereby, by the authority having power to repeal, revoke or amend that law or instrument. the Holders of 125. (1) Every person who immediately prior to appointed day holds the office of Prime Minister, Minister, Deputy public offices to Minister or any other office constituted by or under the old Con- continue stitution, save and except that of Governor and of Judge of the High Court, shall, subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, continue to hold the like office as if he had been appointed or elected thereto under the corresponding provisions of this Con. stitution. Provided that the period of office of any such person shall expire on the date on which it would have expired had the old Constitution not been revoked by this Constitution (2) Any person who under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section holds any office on or after the appointed day by virtue of having been the holder of the like office immediately before 0 79