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5. Amendment of section 16 of the Principal enactment
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Section 16 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—
(1)
in subsection (1) thereof, by the substitution for the words “which dates or is believed to date from a period prior to the Ist day of January, 1850, shall”, of the words “which has existed or is believed to have existed for a period of not less than hundred years, shall,” ;
(2)
in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution for the words and figures “dating to period prior to 1850”, of the words “in existence not less than hundred years”.