Law and Administration Ordinance (Amendment)(1948)

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LAW AND ADMINISTRATION (FURTHER PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE

No. 13 of 5708—1948*

THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE hereby enacts as follows :—

Additional
powers of
Prime Min-
ister and Ministers.

1. 1. The Prime Minister or any Minister may assume any power which the laws within his scope of authority vest in certain officers for the purpose of their implementation.

Construction
of laws.

2. For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared:

a) Where any law enacted by or on behalf of the Provisional Council of State is repugnant to any law which was in force in Palestine on the 5th lyar, 5708 (14th May, 1948), the earlier law shall be deemed to be repealed or amended even if the new law contains no express repeal or amendment of the earlier law.
b) Where any law enacted by or on behalf of the Provisional Council of State amends a law which was in force in Palestine on the 5th Iyar, 5708 (l4th May, 1948), or is in any way related to such a law, the new law shall be construed as one with the earlier law, even where the earlier law and the new law use different expressions for the same concept.

Validation of
Ordinances.

3. Ordinances of the Provisional Council of State signed by the Prime Minister prior to his election and by a Minister prior to the determination of his functions are hereby validated retroactively.

Validation of
Defence
Army Ordi-
nance.

4. The Defence Army of Israel Ordinance, 5708-1948, is hereby validated retroactively as if it were an Ordinance of the Provisional Council of State.

Validation of
acts of Prime
Minister and
Ministers.

5. Acts done by the Prime Minister and by Ministers prior to the conferment of their powers by the Provisional Government are hereby given effect retroactively.

Acts of
officers.

6. No act done by any judge, police officer, government officer or competent authority shall be invalidated on the ground that it was done by him before he was appointed in accordance with the law or before he received authority to do such act.

Application
of Ordinance.

7. Sections 3, 5 and 6 of this Ordinance apply to Ordinances signed and acts done between the 6th lyar 5708 (15th May, 1948) and the date of the coming into force of this Ordinance.

Titles.

8. This Ordinance may be cited as the Law and Administration (Further Provisions) Ordinance, 5708-1948.

24th Sivan, 5708 (24th June, 1948)

		DAVID BEN-GURION Prime Minister
		FELIX ROSENBLUETH Minister of Justice

Published in the Official Gazette, No.13 of the 30th Sivan, 5708 (7th July, 1948).

SOURCE: "Laws of the State of Israel: Authorized Translation from the Hebrew, Volume I ". Government Printer, Jerusalem, Israel (1948-1987), p. 26.