Emergency (Continuation and Validation of Emergency Provisions) Order, 2004 · As enacted
Section 3
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Every emergency provision shall -
notwithstanding any provision of the Constitution or of any written law;
notwithstanding any expiration, revocation or invalidity of any former Proclamation or any emergency provision;
notwithstanding any failure to lay such emergency provision before the Legislative Council as soon as may be after it was made by reason of inadvertence; or by reason of the abolition, dissolution, suspension or reconstitution effective or purported of the Legislative Council; or by any reason whatsoever/
by virtue of this Order be deemed to have been validly and properly made and duly laid before the Legislative Council and shall have/ and be deemed to have had, effect from the commencement of such emergency provision as if such emergency provision were embodied in this Order, save that any amendment expressed to have been made to such emergency provision by any other emergency provision shall have, and be deemed to have had, effect from the commencement of such amendment.
Validation to affect pending proceedings.