INTERPRETATION ACT [Chapter 1:01] (as amended 1st March 2005) PART VI (2) Where a statutory instrument confers power to make other statutory instruments, that power may be exercised so that the statutory instruments so made are published in the same Gazette as the enabling statutory instrument and have effect from the date of their publication. POWERS AND APPOINTMENTS 24 Statutory powers and duties generally (1) Where an enactment confers a power, jurisdiction or right, or imposes a duty, the power, jurisdiction or right may be exercised and the duty shall be performed from time to time as occasion requires. 26 Holders of offices (2) Where an enactment empowers any person or authority to do any act or thing, all such powers shall be deemed to be also given as are reasonably necessary to enable that person or authority to do that act or thing or are incidental to the doing thereof. (3) Where an enactment authorizes or requires an act or thing to be done collectively by more than two persons, a majority of those persons may do that act or thing, unless a quorum fixed by that enactment has not been formed. 25 Exercise of powers before Act comes into operation (1) Where an Act, whether or not it has been promulgated, confers power— (a) to make appointments; or (b) to hold elections; or (c) to make statutory instruments; or (d) to publish documents or give any notices; or Where any enactment confers a power, jurisdiction or right, or imposes a duty, on the holder of an office as such, then the power, jurisdiction or right may be exercised and the duty shall be performed, from time to time, by the holder for the time being of the office or the person lawfully acting in the capacity of such holder. 27 Appointment by name or office An appointment made under an enactment may be made either by name or by reference to the holder of an office or post. 28 Appointments An enactment which confers power to make an appointment of a person to any office or post shall confer on the appointing authority— (a) power at the discretion of that authority to remove or suspend him; or (b) power exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like consent and conditions, if any, applicable on his appointment— (i) to reappoint or reinstate him; or (g) to do any act or thing; (ii) to appoint another person in his stead or to act in his stead, and to provide for the remuneration of the person so appointed; or that power may be exercised at any time after the President has assented thereto, but, except in so far as may be necessary or expedient, a statutory instrument made under that power shall not have effect before the date of commencement of the Act conferring the power. (iii) to fix or vary his remuneration, to withhold his remuneration in whole or in part during any period of suspension from office, and to terminate his remuneration on his removal from office. (e) to prescribe forms; or (f) to give directions; or - 13 -