FIJI

HONOURS AND AWARDS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997

ACT NO. 25 OF 1997

I assent.

[L.S.]

K.K.T. MARA
President

[24 December 1997]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE HONOURS AND AWARDS ACT

ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji.

Short title

l. This Act may be cited as the Honours and Awards (Amendment) Act, 1997.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, "principal Act" means the Honours and Awards Act 1995.

Section "12" amended

3. Section "12" of the principal Act is amended:

(a) in subsection (1), by deleting the words "Ratu Sukuna Day" and substituting the words "New Year's Day";

(b) in subsection (2), by deleting the words "the Fiji Day holiday in each year", and substituting the words "dates and at places to be fixed by the Chancellor of the Order in the Gazette".

Passed by the House of Representatives this twenty-eight day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven.

Passed by the Senate this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven.
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