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(2) The President may, by Order, published in
the Official Gazette, made at any time within the period of three
years next after the appointed day, make such modifications to
any existing law as may appear to him to be necessary or
expedient for bringing that law into conformity with the
provisions of this Act, the Supreme Court Order and the
Constitution, or otherwise for giving effect to or enabling effect
to be given to those provisions.
(3) Anything done under any existing law
before its modification by or under this section which would, but
for this section, cease to have effect, shall continue to have effect
as if done under that law as so modified.
(4) Subsection (2) of this section shall be
without prejudice to any powers conferred by this Act or any
other law upon any person or authority to make provision for any
matter, including the modification of any existing law.
(5) For the purposes of this section, the
expression “existing law” means any Act, Ordinance, rule,
regulation, order or other instrument made pursuant to or
continued in force by or under the former Constitution, and
having effect as a law immediately before the appointed day.
(6) In this section, “modification” includes
adaptation, qualification, exception and other such alteration
as is authorised by subsections (1) and (2) of this section.
(7) Without prejudice to the generality of
subsections (1) to (6) of this section, and subject to any Order
made under subsection (2), in any public document or in any
existing law which continues in force after the appointed day, in
relation to any time or any period commencing on or after the
appointed day, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a)
any reference to Her Majesty the
Queen or to the Crown in respect of
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
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