authority power to remove any public officer from his office shall be
without prejudice to the power of any person or authority to abolish any
office or to any law providing for the compulsory retirement of public
officers generally or any class of public officers on attaining an age
specified therein.
(9) Where power is vested by this Constitution in any person or
authority to appoint any person to act in or perform the functions of any
office if the holder thereof is himself unable to perform those functions,
no such appointment shall be called in question on the ground that the
holder of the office was unable to perform those functions.
(10) Provisions of this Constitution that any person or authority shall
not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or authority
in the exercise of any functions under this Constitution shall not be
construed as precluding a court of law from exercising jurisdiction in
relation to any question whether that person or authority has performed
those functions in accordance with this Constitution or any other law.
(11) When any power is conferred by this Constitution to make any
proclamation, statutory instrument, order, regulation or rule, or to issue
any direction or certificate or confer recognition, the power shall be
construed as including the power, exercisable in like manner, to amend
or revoke any such proclamation, statutory instrument, order,
regulation, rule, direction or certificate or to withdraw any such
recognition:
Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to the power to issue a
certificate conferred by clause (2) of Article 36.
(12) (a) Any reference in this Constitution to a law that amends or
replaces any other law shall be construed as including a reference to a
law that modifies, re-enacts with or without amendment or
modification, or makes different provision in lieu of that other law.
(b) Where any Act passed after the commencement of this Constitution
repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions
thereof, references in this Constitution to the provisions so repealed
shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to
the provisions so re-enacted.