16. Publication

Power to make subsidiary legislation shall, unless another method of publication is authorised, be deemed to include a direction to publish it in the Gazette and, without prejudice to the provisions of sections 15 and 18, a direction that it shall come into operation on the date of its publication.

If the particular form or manner of publication of any legislation or instrument has not been provided for, then, without prejudice to subsection (1) and to any form or manner which may be deemed sufficient, it is deemed to be duly published if it is published in such form or manner as the Minister shall direct.

Without prejudice to subsection (1), a provision in any written law that subsidiary legislation of any description shall be made or published in the Gazette is not deemed to prohibit the making of any such subsidiary legislation otherwise than in the Gazette; and such provision is deemed to have been complied with if, after such subsidiary legislation has been made, the fact that such subsidiary legislation has been made, and the contents thereof, are published, by signification or otherwise, in the Gazette.

Without prejudice to subsection (6), subsection (3) applies to instruments not constituting subsidiary legislation, with the modification that it shall suffice to publish the purport thereof.

The expression “notification in the Gazette” shall not import a duty to execute any formal instrument or to use any words denoting notification, but shall nevertheless import a direction to effect publication in the Gazette in an appropriate manner.

Nothing in the definition of “instrument” as read with this section shall import either a duty or direction to execute any formal instrument, unless the same is otherwise required, or a direction to publish the fact that an instrument has been made, unless such is in fact the case.