No power to make alterations of substance

(1) Nothing in section 8 or 9 of this Act, shall empower the Commissioner to make any alteration or amendment in the substance or otherwise affecting the meaning of any law or provisions of any law. (2) Subject to the provisions of the succeeding subsections of this section, in every case where any such alteration or amendment is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, desirable, the Commissioner shall cause to be drafted a Bill setting forth such alterations and amendments, and authorizing them to be made in the revised edition, and every such Bill shall, subject to the sanction of the Cabinet, be submitted to the National Assembly and dealt with in the ordinary way. (3) Any such Bill may have reference to more Acts than one, although such Acts may not be in pari materia. (4) In any case where an Act, whether consolidated or not, requires such considerable alterations and amendments as to involve its entire recasting, the Commissioner shall cause a Bill to be drafted accordingly, and any such Bill shall, subject to the sanction of the Cabinet, be submitted to the National Assembly and dealt with in the ordinary way.