Control of Imports (Amendment) Act, 1937

Amendment of quota orders already made.

3.—(1) The Executive Council may amend, under section 11 of the Principal Act, any quota order made before the passing of this Act by inserting in such quota order any provision which could lawfully have been inserted therein if this Act had been in force when such quota order was made.

(2) Whenever the Executive Council amends by virtue of this section a quota order made before the passing of this Act, the Executive Council may by the order making such amendment declare that such amendment shall have effect as from the date of such quota order, and whenever such declaration is so made such quota order shall have and be deemed always to have had effect as if the provisions inserted therein by such amendment had been contained in such quota order when it was originally made.