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or matter of the Government, including the administration of
any department of Government, shall, as from that day, be
deemed to have been assigned responsibility therefor under
section 114 of the Constitution. This shall be so until after
the first general election is held under the Constitution unless
such responsibility is sooner re-assigned.
The Cabinet.
17. Subject to section 114 of the Constitution, every
person who does not otherwise become a member of the
Cabinet established by the Constitution but who immediately
before the appointed day is a member of the Cabinet under the
former Constitution shall, as from that day, be a member of
the Cabinet established by the Constitution as if he had been
appointed thereto under that subsection.
18. The salaries and allowances and other terms and
conditions of service of the Judges of the Supreme Court, in
so far as these form part of the law of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, shall continue to be the same after the appointed
day as they are immediately before the appointed day. The
provisions of the Supreme Court Order shall apply.
19. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every
person who, immediately before the appointed day, holds or is
acting in a public office under the former Constitution shall,
as from that day, continue to hold or act in that office or the
corresponding office established by the Constitution, as the
case may be, as if he had been appointed thereto in
accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.
(2) Without prejudice to its generality,
subsection (1) of this section shall apply in relation to the
offices of Attorney-General, Director of Public Prosecutions,
Director of Audit, Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the former
Assembly and any office to which section 83 of the former
Constitution applied. The corresponding office of Director of
Audit shall be the office of Auditor General.
(3) Without prejudice to its generality,
subsection (1) of this section shall apply in relation to the
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Judges of the
Supreme Court.
Public officers.
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