reference to the office of the President, the Vice President, the
Speaker or Deputy Speaker, a Minister, the Attorney General, a
member of Parliament or a member of any commission, authority,
council or committee established by this Constitution.
(3) In this Constitution unless the context otherwise requires, a
reference to the holder of an office by the term designating that office
includes a reference to any person for the time being lawfully acting in or
performing the functions of that office.
(4) For the purposes of this Constitution, a person shall not be
considered as holding a public office by reason only of the fact that that
person is in receipt of a pension or similar allowance in respect of service
under the Government.
(5) The power to remove a public officer from office includes the
power to require or permit that officer to retire from public service; except
that nothing in this clause confers on any person or authority power to require
the retirement of a person holding a public office for which the method of
retirement or removal is specifically provided for by this Constitution.
(6) Any provision in this Constitution that vests in any person or
authority power to remove a public officer from office shall not prejudice the
power of any person or authority to abolish any office or any law providing
for the compulsory retirement of public officers generally or any class of
public officer on attaining an age specified in that law.
(7) 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 of the office is unable to perform those functions, no such
appointment shall be called in question on the ground that the holder of the
office was able to perform those functions.
(8) Where any power is conferred by this Constitution to make any
statutory instrument or rule, or pass any resolution, or give any direction, the
power shall be construed as including the power, exercisable in like manner,
to amend or revoke any such statutory instrument, rule, resolution or
direction.
(9) In this Constitution, references to the amendment of any of the
provisions of this Constitution or any Act of Parliament include references