Building a Better Jamaica

Constitution of 1962 (with Reforms through 1999)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of July, 1962

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL
 

Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by subsection (1) of section 5 of the West Indies Act, 1962 or otherwise in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:- 

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962.
   

   (2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 3 of this Order, this Order shall come into operation immediately before the appointed day (in this Order referred to as "the commencement of this Order"):

   Provided that where by or under this Order the Governor-General has power to make any appointment or to make any Order or to do any other thing for the purposes of this Order that power may be exercised by the Governor of the Colony of Jamaica at any time after the twenty-fourth day of July, 1962 to such extent as may, in his opinion, be necessary or expedient to enable the Constitution established by this Order to function as from the commencement of this Order.

2. (1) The Orders in Council specified in the First Schedule to this Order (hereinafter referred to as "the existing Orders") are hereby revoked.
   

   (2) Notwithstanding the revocation of the existing Orders the following Regulations-

   1. the Public Service Regulations, 1961,
   2. the Judicial Service Regulations, 1961,
   3. the Police Service Regulations, 1961, and
   4. the Jamaica (Constitution) (Retirement of Entitled Officers) Regulations, 1961,

   made thereunder and all amendments thereto shall continue in force subject to such adaptations or modifications as may be made thereto by or under section 4 of this Order and subject to amendment or repeal by the authority having power to amend or revoke the same.

   (3) With effect from the commencement of this Order paragraph (f) (which specifies Jamaica) of the definition of the "the Territories" in subsection (1) of section 2 of the British Caribbean Court of Appeal Order in Council 1962 is revoked.

3. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section and the other provisions of this Order, the Constitution of Jamaica set out in the Second Schedule to this Order (in this Order referred to as "the Constitution") shall come into force in Jamaica at the commencement of this Order.
   

   (2) This subsection and the following provisions of the Constitution-

   1. sections 80 and 81,
   2. subsections (1) and (2) of section 94,
   3. sections 103 and 104,
   4. section 111,
   5. section 124, section 125 to the extent only as to enable a Director of Public Prosecutions to be appointed before the appointed day, shall come into force in Jamaica on the twenty-fifth day of July 1962:

   Provided that in relation to any period prior to the appointed day references in these provisions of the Constitution-

   1. to the Governor-General and the Prime Minister shall be construed as references to the Governor and Premier respectively of the Colony of Jamaica;
   2. to Parliament and