(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, all law to which this section applies, whether being a rule of law or a provision of an Act or Parliament or of any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, which is in force on such a date as Her Majesty may specify by Order in Council (in this Act referred to as “ the appointed day ”), or, having been passed or made before that date, comes into force thereafter, shall, unless and until provision to the contrary is made by Parliament or some other authority having power in that behalf, have the same operation in relation to Trinidad and Tobago, and persons and things belonging to or connected with Trinidad and Tobago, as it would have had apart from this subsection if Trinidad and Tobago had not become a republic.
(2) This section applies to law of, or of any part of, the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and, in relation only to any enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order in Council made by virtue of any such enactment whereby any such enactment applies in relation to Trinidad and Tobago, to law of any other country or territory to which that enactment or Order extends.
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(4) The section shall have effect from the appointed day.