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other law; and
(b)a reference to the holder of an office by the term
designated the office shall be construed as including a reference
to any person acting in that office or, to the extent of the
authority of the holder of the office, otherwise performing the
functions of that office.
4.(1) For the purposes of this Constitution, a person shall Persons in
not be considered as holding office in the public service by receipt of
reason only of the fact that the person is in receipt of a pension pension
or other like allowance in respect of service under the Republic
or any former Government of Seychelles.
(2) If it is provided in any law that an office is not to be
regarded as a public office for the purposes of this Constitution,
a person shall not be regarded as holding, or acting in, a public
office for those purposes by reason only that the person holds or
is acting in, that office.
5. Where no time is prescribed or allowed within which an Provisions
act is required or permitted by this Constitution to be done, the where no
act shall or may be done, as the case may be, with all convenient time is
prescribed
speed and as often as the occasion requires.
6. For the purpose of this Constitution, a person attains a Attainment
certain age at the first moment of the relevant anniversary of the of age
birth of that person.
7.(1) Where this Constitution confers a power or imposes a
duty, the power may be exercised, or the duty shall be
performed, as the case may be, from time to time as occasion
requires.
(2) Where this Constitution confers a power or imposes a duty
on the holder of an office as such, the power may be exercised,
or the duty shall be performed, as the case may be, by the
holder (whether substantive or other) for the time being of the
office.
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Exercise and
performance of
powers and duties