CHAPTER 01:05
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

    1.    Short title

    2.    Application of Act

    3.    Publication of instruments

    4.    Commencement of instrument

    5.    Exercise of powers

    6.    Penalties

    7.    Fees and charges

    8.    Forms

    9.    Laying of certain instruments before the National Assembly

Act 21, 1984,
Act 2, 2006.

An Act to provide for the making, publication and operation of subsidiary legislation and for matters connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 20th July, 1984]

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Statutory Instruments Act.

2.    Application of Act

    This Act applies to each of the following instruments (in this Act referred to as a "statutory instrument") namely, any proclamation, regulation, rule, rule of court, order, bye-law or other instrument made, directly or indirectly, under any enactment and having legislative effect.

3.    Publication of instruments

    (1) Subject to subsection (2), every statutory instrument shall be published in the Gazette in the Statutory Instruments Series and there shall be assigned to it a serial number as of the year in which it is made which shall be printed on the face of the instrument in the following form: Statutory Instrument No. (number) of (year).