(1) In the application of the Act to Samoa, unless inconsistent with the context, there shall be substituted for the respective terms set out in the First Column of the Schedule to this clause the corresponding terms set out in the Second Column of the said Schedule.
First Column | Second Column |
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Audit-Office | The Audit Office mentioned and described in the Western Samoa Audit Regulations 1948 (SR 1948/146)— |
Controller and Auditor-General |
Attorney-General | High Commissioner of Western Samoa. |
Court | The High Court of Western Samoa. |
Supreme Court |
Gazette | Western Samoa Gazette. |
Minister of Justice | High Commissioner of Western Samoa. |
New Zealand | Western Samoa. |
Public Account | Samoan Treasury. |
Consolidated Fund |
Stamp and Cheque Duties Act 1971 | Stamp Duties Ordinance 1932. |
(2) In the application of the Act to Samoa the term existing companies shall include companies incorporated or deemed to be incorporated under the Samoa Companies Order 1922.
(3) If by reason of the non-existence in Samoa of any official or matter referred to it in the Act, or for any other reason a difficulty arises in the application of the Act to Samoa, it shall be lawful for the Court on the application of any person claiming to be affected to give such direction as it thinks proper for any special modification of the Act in its application to Samoa, and every such direction shall have effect according to its tenor as if it had been a provision of this order.
In the first column of the Schedule to subclause (1) the Stamp and Cheque Duties Act 1971 (1971 No 51), being the corresponding enactment in force at the date of this reprint, has been substituted for the repealed Stamp Duties Act 1923.
In the second column of the Schedule to subclause (1) the reference to the Audit Office under the Western Samoa Audit Regulations 1948 has been substituted for a reference to the Auditor under the Samoa Treasury Regulations 1930, as the 1930 regulations were repealed by the 1948 regulations. (Note: the 1948 regulations have also been revoked, as from 1 July 1960, by regulation 23(1)(a) Western Samoa Audit Regulations 1960 (SR 1960/59).)
The second column of the Schedule to subclause (1) was amended, by section 3(3) of the Samoa Amendment Act 1947, by substituting the words “High Commissioner of Western Samoa”
for the words “Administrator of Western Samoa”
wherever they appeared.