Clause 8

The Commissioners shall, upon completion, transmit to the President a copy of the Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof.

The President may thereupon, by order published in the Gazette, provide that the Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof as may be specified in the said order, shall come into force from such date as he may think fit.

The Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof shall, as soon as may be after the publication of such order, be published and presented to Parliament.

From the date specified in the order referred to in subsection (2), such Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof, shall without prejudice to the provisions of sections 5 and 7, be deemed to be and shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper Statute Book of Singapore in respect of Acts contained in the Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof and in force or assented to but not yet brought into force, on the date appointed by the President under section 2 in relation to the Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof, as the case may be, and also the sole and only proper Statute Book of Singapore in respect of any Acts or parts of Acts included in the Revised Edition of Acts or any volume thereof in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7.