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9. (1) The commissioner shall cause the various booklets which have been compiled for the purposes of section 8 to be contained together in such number of volumes as he considers convenient.

(2) A booklet shall be bound in such manner as will enable it to be easily removed from and replaced in a volume.

10. (1) The commissioner shall cause three complete sets of the booklets which have been compiled for the purposes of section 8 to be bound together in volumes in a permanent manner.

(2) The title page of each volume of booklets so bound shall be sealed with the Public Seal of the Colony and one copy of each volume shall be transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, one copy of each volume to the Attorney General and one copy of each volume to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and shall be retained by them for record purposes.

11. (1) The Governor may, by Proclamation, approve the revised edition and order that the revised edition shall come into operation on such date as he may specify in such Proclamation.

(2) From the effective date the revised edition shall be deemed to be and shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts of justice and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper laws of the Colony in respect of all Ordinances contained therein.

12. (1) The revised edition may also contain a reprint of such imperial enactments, treaties and conventions and such indices, notes and references as the commissioner considers useful to include.

(2) When any imperial enactment, treaty or convention is re- printed in pursuance of subsection (1), the provisions of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with such amendments as may have been made thereto, and where any imperial enactment, treaty or convention has been applied or extended to the Colony with modifications the provisions of that imperial enactment, treaty or convention may be reproduced with those modifications:

Provided that every departure from the original text of the imperial enactment, treaty or convention shall be clearly shown by notes, references or other similar means.

(3) The commissioner may also cause the reprint referred to in subsection (1) to be published in such number of separate booklets, in the manner prescribed by section 8, or in such other form as he considers convenient.