This Act may be cited as the Federation of Malaya Act 1957.

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven.

All existing law— that is to say, all law which, whether it is a rule of law or a provision of an Act of any Parliament or a provision of any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, has come into force or been passed or made before the commencement of this Act— shall, until provision to the contrary is made by the authority having power to alter that law, have the same operation in relation to the Federation of Malaya, and to persons or things in any way belonging to or connected with the Federation of Malaya as it would have had if Her Majesty had not ceased to have sovereignty or jurisdiction or any other power in and in respect of the Federation of Malaya, or any part thereof.

This section extends to law of, or of any part of, New Zealand or any of the territories referred to in section three of this Act.

This Act shall be in force in the following territories:

This Act is hereby declared to be a reserved enactment for the purposes of section nine of the Samoa Amendment Act 1947.