Other powers of Commissioner

In the preparation of the revised edition, the Commissioner shall have the following additional powers, 10 (a) where by any law any amendment has been made to any other law, to alter the amended law in the manner prescribed by the amending law; (b) to consolidate into one Act any two or more Acts in pari materia, making the alterations thereby rendered necessary in the consolidated Act, and affixing thereto such date as may seem most convenient; (c) to alter the order of sections in any Act, and in all cases where it is desirable to do so, to re-number the sections of any Act; (d) to alter the form or arrangement of any section of an Act, either by combining it in whole or in part with another section or sections, or by dividing it into two or more subsections, or by transposing words; (e) to divide any Act, whether consolidated or not, into parts or other divisions; (f) to transfer any provision contained in an enactment from that enactment to any other enactment to which it more properly belongs; (g) to alter the number of the Chapter of any Act contained in the existing edition of the Revised Laws; (h) to add a short title to any Act which may require it and, if desirable, to alter the short title of any Act, and to alter and amend the title of any Act so as to bring such title into conformity with the consolidated Acts appearing in such title; (i) to clarify (whether by shortening, expansion or otherwise) the language of any provision of any enactment appearing to the Commissioner to require such clarification; (j) to supply or alter marginal notes; (k) to correct cross references, to shorten and simplify the phraseology of any enactment; (l) to correct punctuation in any enactment; (m) to provide footnotes by way of amplification; (n) to correct grammatical, typographical and similar mistakes and omissions in the existing copies of enactments and for that purpose to make verbal additions, omissions or alterations not affecting the meaning of any enactment; (o) to make such formal alterations as to names, localities, offices, titles and otherwise as may be necessary to bring any enactment into conformity with the circumstances of Belize; (p) to frame and insert in any enactment definitions of words used therein and to substitute for definitions of words or phrases used in any enactment such other definitions appearing to the Commissioner to be more appropriate; (q) to make adaptations of or amendments in any enactment as appear to the Commissioner to be necessary or proper as a consequence of any change in the Belize Constitution, Cap. 4; (r) to do all such things relating to form and method as appear to the Commissioner to be necessary for the perfecting of the revised edition; 12 (s) to publish the laws electronically on CD-ROM and on the internet.