SOLOMON ISLANDS

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION 
(AMENDMENT) ACT 2009
(No. 24 of 2009)

PASSED by the National Parliament this twenty-third day of December 2009.
(This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true copy of the Bill)

Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty’s name and on Her Majesty’s behalf this fifteenth day of January 2010.

Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui
Governor-General

Date of Commencement: (See section 1)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION ACT 2008

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION 
(AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

Short title and commencement

1. 	This Act may be cited as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Amendment) Act 2009, and commences on the date it is published in the Gazette.

Amendment to Section 4

2. 	Section 4 of the principal Act is amended –

(a) 	in subsection (1), by deleting "within fourteen days of the appointment of its members" and substituting "on a date appointed by the Minister, by notice in Gazette (whether a retrospective or retroactive date)";

(b) 	in subsection (2), by deleting "three months" and substituting "up to seven months".

Savings

3. 	For the avoidance of doubt, the appointment of the commencement date of the operations of the Commission or the extension of the preparatory period under this Act does not affect the validity of anything previously done by the Commission after the appointment of the commissioners or by the Commission or any person during the preparatory period extended under this Act.