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(2) The Governor-General may further, by proclamation in the Gazette, declare any law in force in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope to be in force in the Territory, with such modifications as he may deem fit, and may repeal, amend or modify any such law, or make new laws applicable to the Territory.

(3) (a) Any proclamation issued in terms of sub-section (2) shall be laid on the Tables of both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after publication if Parliament is then in ordinary session, or if it is not then in ordinary session, within fourteen days after the commencement of its next ensuing ordinary session, and shall remain on the said Tables as aforesaid for a period of at least twenty-eight consecutive days. If Parliament is prorogued before the necessary twenty-eight days have elapsed, such proclamation shall again be laid on the said Tables as aforesaid within fourteen days after the commencement of its next ensuing session.

(b) If both Houses of Parliament have by resolutions passed in the same session (being a session during which any proclamation referred to in paragraph (a) has been duly laid on the Tables) disapproved of any such proclamation, or of any provision in any such proclamation, such proclamation shall thereafter cease to be of force and effect to the extent to which it has been so disapproved, but without prejudice to the validity of anything that has been done in terms of such proclamation, up to the date from which it so ceases to be of force and effect, or to any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under or by virtue of such proclamation as at the said date.

4. No Act of the Union Parliament passed after the date of commencement of this Act shall apply to the Territory, unless by such Act it is specifically expressed so to apply or unless it is declared to apply by proclamation of the Governor-General.

5. This Act shall be called the Prince Edward Islands Act, 1948.

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