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Officer Administering the Government for asscnt unless it is accompanied by the Speaker's certificate which shall be conclusive for all purposes and shall not be open to question in any court. 94. (1) If, after a Bill has been given a Enal reading by Tunctions of the Parliament, and before it is submitted to the Constitutional Coun- Council cil in pursuance of section 9), the Prime Minister certifies by in regard writing under his hand that the Bill is so urgent that it is not to Bills enacted on a in the public interest to delay its enactment, the provisions of certificate scction 93 shall not apply to that Bill and, if it be presented to the of urgency Officer Administering the Government with the said certificate of the Prime Minister, 1€ shall be lawful for the Officer Administering the Government to assent forthwith to the Bill (2) Where the Officer Administering the Government assents to a Bill on the grounds of urgency in pursuance of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, it shall nevertheless be the duty of the Speaker to cause an authenticated copy of the Act to be sent as soon as may be to the Constitutional Councal The Council shall thereupon consider the Act and within such time as may be pres. cribcd shall make a report to the Officer Administering the Gov- ernment and the Speaker stating whether or not in the opinion of the Council, any and if so, which provision of the Act is incon- sistent with the Declaration of Rights The Speaker shall cause any such report to be laid before Parliament without undue delay 95. (1) Every statutory insan un:ent shall be published in the functions Gazette and thereupon an authenticated copy thereof shall be of the Council in transmitted by the prescribed authority in the prescribed manner regard to to the Constitutional Council within such period of the date of statutory instruments the coming into force of the statutory instrument as may be prescribed (2) The Council shall thereupon consider such statutory instrument and within such time as may prescribed shall make a report to the Speaker and to the prescribed authority, stating whether or not in the opinion of the Cowil, any and if so, which provision of the statutory instrument is inconsistent with the Declaration of Rights (3) The Speaker shall cause every report of the Constitu- tional Council on a statutory instrument to be laid before Parlia- ment on the next sitting day after receiving the Council's report (4) Where an adverse report in respect of any provision of a statutory instrument is presented to Parliament in pursuance of subsection (3) of this section, then, on the twenty-first sitting day after the presentation of that report, unless prior to that day either-

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