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PART I-Introductory\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_1\", \"num\": \"1.\", \"text\": \"Short title 1. This Law may be cited as the Emergency Powers Law (2006 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_2\", \"num\": \"2.\", \"text\": \"Definition 2. In this Law \u2014 \u201cLaw\u201d includes any law, regulation, rule, order, proclamation or bye-law in force in the Islands. PART II-Public Emergency\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_3\", \"num\": \"3.\", \"text\": \"Issue of proclamation of emergency 3. (1) Subject to subsection (3), if at any time \u2014 (a) there has been an earthquake, or there has been or there is an immediate threat of a hurricane, flood, fire, outbreak of pestilence, outbreak of infectious disease or other calamity, whether similar to the aforementioned or not; Emergency Powers Law (b) there is in effect in relation to the Islands a tropical storm watch or warning, or hurricane watch or warning; or (c) action has been taken or is immediately threatened by any person or body of persons of such a nature and on so extensive a scale as to be likely to endanger the public safety or to deprive the community or any substantial portion of the community of supplies or services essential to life, the Governor may, after consultation with the Leader of Government Business, by Proclamation, (hereinafter referred to as a \u201cproclamation of emergency\u201d) declare that a state of emergency exists. (2) Subject to subsection (3), the Governor may, after consultation with the Leader of Government Business, by Proclamation, revoke a proclamation of emergency, and from the date when such revocation takes effect the proclamation of emergency shall cease to be in force, except as respects things previously done or omitted to be done. (3) Where, in the judgement of the Governor, the circumstances make it impracticable to consult with the Leader of Government Business as required by subsections (1) and (2), the Governor may, without such consultation, declare a state of emergency or revoke the proclamation of emergency, but shall, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, inform the Leader of Government Business . (4) No proclamation of emergency shall be in force for more than one month, without prejudice to the issue of another proclamation at or before the end of that period. (5) Where a proclamation of emergency has been made, the occasion thereof shall forthwith be communicated to the Legislative Assembly, and if the Legislative Assembly is then separated by such adjournment or prorogation as will not expire within ten days, a proclamation shall be issued by the Governor for the meeting of the Legislative Assembly within ten days, and the Legislative Assembly shall accordingly meet and sit upon the day appointed by the proclamation, and shall continue to sit and act in like manner as if it had stood adjourned or prorogued to the same day.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_4\", \"num\": \"4.\", \"text\": \"Compulsory evacuation 4. (1) The Governor may, after consultation with the body commonly referred to as the \u201cNational Hurricane Committee\u201d and any other relevant agency, by Order declare an area to be an unsafe area and may, in that Order or a subsequent Order, direct that the unsafe area be evacuated by a specified time and in accordance with such procedures, if any, as he may specify. (2) Whoever, without proper authorisation, enters or is found in an unsafe area, or, being in an unsafe area, refuses to leave that area, is guilty of an offence and Emergency Powers Law liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars (but which shall not be less than two hundred dollars) and to imprisonment for two years. (3) In subsection (2) \u2014 \u201cproper authorisation\u201d means authorisation issued by or on behalf of the Governor or the Commissioner of Police. (4) A constable may, in an unsafe area, arrest any person that he reasonably suspects to be committing an offence under subsection (2). (5) Notwithstanding the description of an unsafe area specified in an Order made under subsection (1), a police checkpoint established in respect of an unsafe area shall be deemed to be located on the perimeter of that unsafe area and whoever crosses that check point without proper authorisation to do so is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_5\", \"num\": \"5.\", \"text\": \"Emergency regulations 5. (1) Where a proclamation of emergency has been made and so long as the proclamation is in force, the Governor may make regulations for securing the essentials of life to the community, and those regulations may confer or impose on any Government department, or any person in Her Majesty\u2019s service or acting on Her Majesty\u2019s behalf, such powers and duties as the Governor may deem necessary for the preservation of the peace, for securing the public safety, the defence of the Islands, the maintenance of public order, the suppression of mutiny, rebellion or riot, for securing and regulating the supply and distribution of food, water, fuel, light and other necessities, for maintaining the means of transit or locomotion and for any other purposes essential to the public safety and the life of the community, and may make such provisions incidental to the powers aforesaid, as may appear to the Governor to be required, for making the exercise of those powers effective. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), regulations made under this Part may \u2014 (a) make provision for the detention of persons and the deportation and exclusion of persons from the Islands or any part of the Islands; (b) authorise on behalf of Her Majesty \u2014 (i) the taking of possession or control or the managing or carrying on, as the case may be, of any property or undertakings; and (ii) the acquisition of any property other than land; (c) authorise the entering and search of any premises; (d) authorise the use of any of Her Majesty\u2019s Forces; (e) provide for amending any enactment, for suspending the operation of any enactment and for applying any enactment with or without modification; Emergency Powers Law (f) provide for charging in respect of the grant or issue of any licence, permit, certificate or other document for the purposes of the regulations, such fee as may be prescribed by or under the regulations; (g) provide for payment of compensation to and remuneration of persons affected by the regulations; (h) provide for the apprehension and trial by courts of summary jurisdiction of persons guilty of offences against the regulations, so however that the maximum penalty which may be inflicted for any offence against any such regulations shall be imprisonment for six months and a fine of two hundred dollars, together with the forfeiture of any goods or money in respect of which the offence has been committed: Provided that no such regulations shall alter any existing procedure in criminal cases or confer any right to punish by fine or imprisonment without trial: Provided also that nothing in this Part shall be construed to authorise the making of any regulations imposing any form of compulsory military service or industrial conscription. (3) All regulations made under this Part shall be laid as soon as may be after the making thereof before the Legislative Assembly and shall not continue in force after the expiration of seven days from the date when they are so laid before the Legislative Assembly, unless a resolution is passed by the Legislative Assembly providing for the continuance thereof, and in default of such resolution for the continuance of such regulations, the proclamation shall cease to have force and effect. (4) Regulations made under this Part shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any enactment, and any provision of any enactment which may be inconsistent with such regulations shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, have no effect so long as such regulations remain in force. (5) Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the Governor or other authority or person in pursuance of this Part, or of any regulations made under this Part, and to be signed by or on behalf of the Governor or such authority or person shall be received in evidence, and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument made or issued by the Governor or that authority or person.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_6\", \"num\": \"6.\", \"text\": \"Exercise of power in good faith not actionable 6. No proceedings shall be brought against any person for anything done in good faith in the exercise of any powers conferred by any regulations made under this Part. Emergency Powers Law\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_7\", \"num\": \"7.\", \"text\": \"Revocation or amendment of regulations 7. (1) Regulations made under this Part shall have effect as if enacted in this Law, but may be added to, altered or revoked by resolution of the Legislative Assembly, or by regulations made in like manner and subject to the like provisions as the original regulations. (2) The expiry or revocation of any regulations made under this Part shall not be deemed to have affected the previous operation thereof, the validity of any action thereunder, or any punishment or penalty incurred in respect of any contravention or failure to comply therewith or any proceeding or remedy in respect of any such punishment or penalty. PART III-War Emergency\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_8\", \"num\": \"8.\", \"text\": \"Power to proclaim state of war emergency 8. (1) The Governor, in the event of Her Majesty being engaged in any war, or whenever, at any time, it appears to him that a state of war between Her Majesty and any Foreign State is imminent, may, in the interest of the public security, by Proclamation, declare that a state of war emergency exists. (2) Every emergency so proclaimed shall be deemed to continue until determined by a further proclamation made by the Governor in that behalf.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_9\", \"num\": \"9.\", \"text\": \"Power to make War Emergency Regulations 9. (1) Wherever a state of emergency has been proclaimed under section 8, the Governor may make such regulations (in this Law referred to as \u201cthe War Emergency Regulations\u201d), as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for securing the public safety, the defence of the Islands, the maintenance of public order and the suppression of mutiny, rebellion and riot, and for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), such regulations may, so far as appears to the Governor to be necessary or expedient for any of the purposes mentioned in such subsection \u2014 (a) make provision for the detention of persons and the deportation and exclusion of persons from the Islands; (b) authorise \u2014 (i) the taking of possession or control, on behalf of Her Majesty, of any property or undertaking; and (ii) the acquisition on behalf of Her Majesty of any property other than land; (c) authorise the entering and search of any premises; Emergency Powers Law (d) provide for amending any law, for suspending the operation of any law and for applying any law with or without modification; (e) provide for charging, in respect of the grant or issue of any licence, permit, certificate or other document for the purposes of the regulations, such fee as may be prescribed by or under the regulations; and (f) provide for payment of compensation and remuneration to persons affected by the regulations; and (g) provide for the apprehension, trial and punishment of persons offending against the regulations: Provided that nothing in this section shall authorise the making of provision for the trial of persons by Military Courts.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_10\", \"num\": \"10.\", \"text\": \"Power to make orders, etc., under regulations 10. The War Emergency Regulations may provide for empowering such authorities or persons as may be specified in the regulations to make proclamations, orders and rules for any of the purposes for which such regulations are authorised by this Part to be made, and may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the Governor to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_11\", \"num\": \"11.\", \"text\": \"Regulations, etc., to prevail notwithstanding inconsistency 11. Any regulation made under this Part, or any proclamation, order or rule made in pursuance of any such regulation, shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any law; and any provision of a law which may be inconsistent with any regulation or any such proclamation, order or rule shall, whether that provision has or has not been amended, modified or suspended in its operation under section 9, to the extent of such inconsistency have no effect so long as such regulation, proclamation, order or rule remains in force.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_12\", \"num\": \"12.\", \"text\": \"Documents to be received in evidence 12. Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the Governor or other authority or person in pursuance of this Part, or of any regulations made under this Part, and to be signed by or on behalf of the Governor or such other authority or person, shall be received in evidence, and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument made or issued by the Governor or by such authority or person. Emergency Powers Law\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_13\", \"num\": \"13.\", \"text\": \"Provisions and regulations to have continuing effect 13. Sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 and any regulations made under this Part shall be, and continue to be, of full force and effect throughout the existence of any state of emergency which, from time to time, may be proclaimed under this Part, but upon the determination of the state of emergency under section 8(2), they shall then cease to have effect except as respects things previously done or omitted to be done. Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Governor in Cabinet this 30th day of May, 2006. 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Revision).\nOriginally enacted-\nCap. 17-1st January, 1964\nCap. 48-1st January, 1964\nLaw 16 of 2005-14th September, 2005.\nConsolidated and revised this 30th day of May, 2006.\nNote (not forming part of the Law):  This revision replaces the 1997 Revision which\nshould now be discarded.\n\nEmergency Powers Law\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nPage 3\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nEMERGENCY POWERS LAW\n(2006 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\nSection\nPage\nPART I-Introductory\n1.\nShort title ...................................................................................................................................5\n2.\nDefinition ...................................................................................................................................5\nPART II-Public Emergency\n3.\nIssue of proclamation of emergency ..........................................................................................5\n4.\nCompulsory evacuation .............................................................................................................6\n5.\nEmergency regulations ..............................................................................................................7\n6.\nExercise of power in good faith not actionable ...........................................................................8\n7.\nRevocation or amendment of regulations ...................................................................................9\nPART III-War Emergency\n8.\nPower to proclaim state of war emergency ................................................................................9\n9.\nPower to make War Emergency Regulations .............................................................................9\n10.\nPower to make orders, etc., under regulations ......................................................................... 10\n11.\nRegulations, etc., to prevail notwithstanding inconsistency ...................................................... 10\n12.\nDocuments to be received in evidence..................................................................................... 10\n13.\nProvisions and regulations to have continuing effect ................................................................ 11\n\nEmergency Powers Law\nSection 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nPage 5\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nEMERGENCY POWERS LAW\n(2006 Revision)\nENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands.\nPART I-Introductory\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Law may be cited as the Emergency Powers Law (2006 Revision).\n2.\nDefinition\n2.\nIn this Law \u2014\n\u201cLaw\u201d includes any law, regulation, rule, order, proclamation or bye-law in\nforce in the Islands.\nPART II-Public Emergency\n3.\nIssue of proclamation of emergency\n3.\n(1) Subject to subsection (3), if at any time \u2014\n(a)\nthere has been an earthquake, or there has been or there is an immediate\nthreat of a hurricane, flood, fire, outbreak of pestilence, outbreak of\ninfectious disease or other calamity, whether similar to the\naforementioned or not;\n\nSection 4\nEmergency Powers Law\n\nPage 6\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nc\n\n(b) there is in effect in relation to the Islands a tropical storm watch or\nwarning, or hurricane watch or warning; or\n(c)\naction has been taken or is immediately threatened by any person or body\nof persons of such a nature and on so extensive a scale as to be likely to\nendanger the public safety or to deprive the community or any substantial\nportion of the community of supplies or services essential to life,\nthe Governor may, after consultation with the Leader of Government Business,\nby Proclamation, (hereinafter referred to as a \u201cproclamation of emergency\u201d)\ndeclare that a state of emergency exists.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Governor may, after consultation with the\nLeader of Government Business, by Proclamation, revoke a proclamation of\nemergency, and from the date when such revocation takes effect the\nproclamation of emergency shall cease to be in force, except as respects things\npreviously done or omitted to be done.\n(3) Where, in the judgement of the Governor, the circumstances make it\nimpracticable to consult with the Leader of Government Business as required\nby subsections (1) and (2), the Governor may, without such consultation,\ndeclare a state of emergency or revoke the proclamation of emergency, but\nshall, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, inform the Leader of\nGovernment Business .\n(4) No proclamation of emergency shall be in force for more than one month,\nwithout prejudice to the issue of another proclamation at or before the end of\nthat period.\n(5) Where a proclamation of emergency has been made, the occasion thereof shall\nforthwith be communicated to the Legislative Assembly, and if the Legislative\nAssembly is then separated by such adjournment or prorogation as will not\nexpire within ten days, a proclamation shall be issued by the Governor for the\nmeeting of the Legislative Assembly within ten days, and the Legislative\nAssembly shall accordingly meet and sit upon the day appointed by the\nproclamation, and shall continue to sit and act in like manner as if it had stood\nadjourned or prorogued to the same day.\n4.\nCompulsory evacuation\n4.\n(1) The Governor may, after consultation with the body commonly referred to as\nthe \u201cNational Hurricane Committee\u201d and any other relevant agency, by Order\ndeclare an area to be an unsafe area and may, in that Order or a subsequent\nOrder, direct that the unsafe area be evacuated by a specified time and in\naccordance with such procedures, if any, as he may specify.\n(2) Whoever, without proper authorisation, enters or is found in an unsafe area, or,\nbeing in an unsafe area, refuses to leave that area, is guilty of an offence and\n\nEmergency Powers Law\nSection 5\n\nc\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nPage 7\n\nliable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars (but which\nshall not be less than two hundred dollars) and to imprisonment for two years.\n(3) In subsection (2) \u2014\n\u201cproper authorisation\u201d means authorisation issued by or on behalf of the\nGovernor or the Commissioner of Police.\n(4) A constable may, in an unsafe area, arrest any person that he reasonably\nsuspects to be committing an offence under subsection (2).\n(5) Notwithstanding the description of an unsafe area specified in an Order made\nunder subsection (1), a police checkpoint established in respect of an unsafe\narea shall be deemed to be located on the perimeter of that unsafe area and\nwhoever crosses that check point without proper authorisation to do so is\nguilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two\nthousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.\n5.\nEmergency regulations\n5.\n(1) Where a proclamation of emergency has been made and so long as the\nproclamation is in force, the Governor may make regulations for securing the\nessentials of life to the community, and those regulations may confer or\nimpose on any Government department, or any person in Her Majesty\u2019s\nservice or acting on Her Majesty\u2019s behalf, such powers and duties as the\nGovernor may deem necessary for the preservation of the peace, for securing\nthe public safety, the defence of the Islands, the maintenance of public order,\nthe suppression of mutiny, rebellion or riot, for securing and regulating the\nsupply and distribution of food, water, fuel, light and other necessities, for\nmaintaining the means of transit or locomotion and for any other purposes\nessential to the public safety and the life of the community, and may make\nsuch provisions incidental to the powers aforesaid, as may appear to the\nGovernor to be required, for making the exercise of those powers effective.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1),\nregulations made under this Part may \u2014\n(a)\nmake provision for the detention of persons and the deportation and\nexclusion of persons from the Islands or any part of the Islands;\n(b) authorise on behalf of Her Majesty \u2014\n(i)\nthe taking of possession or control or the managing or carrying on,\nas the case may be, of any property or undertakings; and\n(ii) the acquisition of any property other than land;\n(c)\nauthorise the entering and search of any premises;\n(d) authorise the use of any of Her Majesty\u2019s Forces;\n(e)\nprovide for amending any enactment, for suspending the operation of any\nenactment and for applying any enactment with or without modification;\n\nSection 6\nEmergency Powers Law\n\nPage 8\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nc\n\n(f)\nprovide for charging in respect of the grant or issue of any licence,\npermit, certificate or other document for the purposes of the regulations,\nsuch fee as may be prescribed by or under the regulations;\n(g) provide for payment of compensation to and remuneration of persons\naffected by the regulations;\n(h) provide for the apprehension and trial by courts of summary jurisdiction\nof persons guilty of offences against the regulations, so however that the\nmaximum penalty which may be inflicted for any offence against any\nsuch regulations shall be imprisonment for six months and a fine of two\nhundred dollars, together with the forfeiture of any goods or money in\nrespect of which the offence has been committed:\nProvided that no such regulations shall alter any existing procedure in\ncriminal cases or confer any right to punish by fine or imprisonment\nwithout trial:\nProvided also that nothing in this Part shall be construed to authorise the\nmaking of any regulations imposing any form of compulsory military\nservice or industrial conscription.\n(3) All regulations made under this Part shall be laid as soon as may be after the\nmaking thereof before the Legislative Assembly and shall not continue in\nforce after the expiration of seven days from the date when they are so laid\nbefore the Legislative Assembly, unless a resolution is passed by the\nLegislative Assembly providing for the continuance thereof, and in default of\nsuch resolution for the continuance of such regulations, the proclamation shall\ncease to have force and effect.\n(4) Regulations made under this Part shall have effect notwithstanding anything\ninconsistent therewith contained in any enactment, and any provision of any\nenactment which may be inconsistent with such regulations shall, to the extent\nof such inconsistency, have no effect so long as such regulations remain in\nforce.\n(5) Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the\nGovernor or other authority or person in pursuance of this Part, or of any\nregulations made under this Part, and to be signed by or on behalf of the\nGovernor or such authority or person shall be received in evidence, and shall,\nuntil the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an instrument made or issued by\nthe Governor or that authority or person.\n6.\nExercise of power in good faith not actionable\n6.\nNo proceedings shall be brought against any person for anything done in good faith\nin the exercise of any powers conferred by any regulations made under this Part.\n\nEmergency Powers Law\nSection 7\n\nc\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nPage 9\n\n7.\nRevocation or amendment of regulations\n7.\n(1) Regulations made under this Part shall have effect as if enacted in this Law,\nbut may be added to, altered or revoked by resolution of the Legislative\nAssembly, or by regulations made in like manner and subject to the like\nprovisions as the original regulations.\n(2) The expiry or revocation of any regulations made under this Part shall not be\ndeemed to have affected the previous operation thereof, the validity of any\naction thereunder, or any punishment or penalty incurred in respect of any\ncontravention or failure to comply therewith or any proceeding or remedy in\nrespect of any such punishment or penalty.\nPART III-War Emergency\n8.\nPower to proclaim state of war emergency\n8.\n(1) The Governor, in the event of Her Majesty being engaged in any war, or\nwhenever, at any time, it appears to him that a state of war between Her\nMajesty and any Foreign State is imminent, may, in the interest of the public\nsecurity, by Proclamation, declare that a state of war emergency exists.\n(2) Every emergency so proclaimed shall be deemed to continue until determined\nby a further proclamation made by the Governor in that behalf.\n9.\nPower to make War Emergency Regulations\n9.\n(1) Wherever a state of emergency has been proclaimed under section 8, the\nGovernor may make such regulations (in this Law referred to as \u201cthe War\nEmergency Regulations\u201d), as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for\nsecuring the public safety, the defence of the Islands, the maintenance of\npublic order and the suppression of mutiny, rebellion and riot, and for\nmaintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1),\nsuch regulations may, so far as appears to the Governor to be necessary or\nexpedient for any of the purposes mentioned in such subsection \u2014\n(a)\nmake provision for the detention of persons and the deportation and\nexclusion of persons from the Islands;\n(b) authorise \u2014\n(i)\nthe taking of possession or control, on behalf of Her Majesty, of any\nproperty or undertaking; and\n(ii) the acquisition on behalf of Her Majesty of any property other\nthan land;\n(c)\nauthorise the entering and search of any premises;\n\nSection 10\nEmergency Powers Law\n\nPage 10\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nc\n\n(d) provide for amending any law, for suspending the operation of any law\nand for applying any law with or without modification;\n(e)\nprovide for charging, in respect of the grant or issue of any licence,\npermit, certificate or other document for the purposes of the regulations,\nsuch fee as may be prescribed by or under the regulations; and\n(f)\nprovide for payment of compensation and remuneration to persons\naffected by the regulations; and\n(g) provide for the apprehension, trial and punishment of persons offending\nagainst the regulations:\nProvided that nothing in this section shall authorise the making of provision\nfor the trial of persons by Military Courts.\n10.\nPower to make orders, etc., under regulations\n10. The War Emergency Regulations may provide for empowering such authorities or\npersons as may be specified in the regulations to make proclamations, orders and\nrules for any of the purposes for which such regulations are authorised by this Part\nto be made, and may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as\nappear to the Governor to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the\nregulations.\n11.\nRegulations, etc., to prevail notwithstanding inconsistency\n11. Any regulation made under this Part, or any proclamation, order or rule made in\npursuance of any such regulation, shall have effect notwithstanding anything\ninconsistent therewith contained in any law; and any provision of a law which may\nbe inconsistent with any regulation or any such proclamation, order or rule shall,\nwhether that provision has or has not been amended, modified or suspended in its\noperation under section 9, to the extent of such inconsistency have no effect so long\nas such regulation, proclamation, order or rule remains in force.\n12.\nDocuments to be received in evidence\n12. Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by the Governor or\nother authority or person in pursuance of this Part, or of any regulations made under\nthis Part, and to be signed by or on behalf of the Governor or such other authority or\nperson, shall be received in evidence, and shall, until the contrary is proved, be\ndeemed to be an instrument made or issued by the Governor or by such authority or\nperson.\n\nEmergency Powers Law\nSection 13\n\nc\nRevised as at 30th day of May, 2006\nPage 11\n\n13.\nProvisions and regulations to have continuing effect\n13. Sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 and any regulations made under this Part shall be, and\ncontinue to be, of full force and effect throughout the existence of any state of\nemergency which, from time to time, may be proclaimed under this Part, but upon\nthe determination of the state of emergency under section 8(2), they shall then cease\nto have effect except as respects things previously done or omitted to be done.\nPublication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Governor in Cabinet\nthis 30th day of May, 2006.\nCarmena Watler\nClerk of Cabinet","akn_extracted_at":"2026-06-22 15:32:45.235344+00","cms_id":"1964-C017","law_type":"principal","year":"1964","number":"C017","title":"Emergency Powers Act","status":"in_force"},"provenance":{"files":[{"file_id":"4981","expr_id":"177","kind":"akn_xml","filename":"1964-C017_2006 Revision.akn.xml","source_url":null,"storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-C017\/1964-C017_2006 Revision.akn.xml","content_md5":"cdd4d5e94ca50daf37d125b6cef5c464","byte_size":"17773","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-22 15:32:45.394801+00"},{"file_id":"353","expr_id":"177","kind":"pristine_pdf","filename":"1964-C017_2006 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-C017\/1964-C017_2006 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/pristine\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-C017\/1964-C017_2006 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"c15e82c88e1d8338b79163278f3a03dd","byte_size":"375786","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:34.96834+00"},{"file_id":"354","expr_id":"177","kind":"working_pdf","filename":"1964-C017_2006 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-C017\/1964-C017_2006 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1964\/1964-C017\/1964-C017_2006 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"c15e82c88e1d8338b79163278f3a03dd","byte_size":"375786","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:34.96834+00"}],"paragraph_count":5,"latest_history":null},"quality":{"expr_id":"177","doc_id":"177","quality_state":"needs_review","quality_score":"84","needs_human_review":"t","deterministic_categories":"{duplicate_text,page_header_footer_noise}","llm_categories":"{truncated_text,other}","repair_actions":"{collapse_duplicate_text,manual_review,reextract_full_text,strip_page_furniture}","finding_severity_counts":"{\"low\": 1, \"medium\": 1}","finding_summary":"Sample ends with omission marker; likely truncated. 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