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- The Court answered the questions posed by the Attorney General in her Reference, as follows: A law once in force, forms part of the corpus juris and continues in force as enacted unless it is amended or repealed. A repeal may take place impliedly or expressly by subsequent legislation. The Law Revision Commissioner has no power to repeal a provision that has not been repealed by subsequent legislation, given sections 6 and 7 of the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance. The learned judge applied too narrow and rigid a construction to Section 10 of the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance in her determination that section 25 of the 2018 Revised Edition of the Road Traffic Ordinance, which contained the offence of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving, is not in force in the Turks and Caicos Islands The offence of Causing Death by Dangerous driving remains in force in the Turks and Caicos Islands. R (on the application of Edison First Power Ltd) v Central Valuation Officer and another [2003 ]4 All ER 209 at [116], [117] considered.
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