2. This Order shall come into operation on the date of the making
   thereof.
3. In the interpretation of this Order, and of all other Orders
   hereafter made by the Governor-General in Council relating hereto,
   unless a contrary intention appears, the term “Union Islands” shall
   be deemed to refer to and include those islands in the Pacific Ocean
   referred to as the Union Islands in an Order of His Majesty in Council
   bearing date the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine
   hundred and sixteen, and specified in the Schedule thereto as being the
   Union Group—viz., Fakaofu, Nukunono, and Atafu, together with all
   small islands, islets, rocks, and reefs depending on them.
4. The authority and power to make all such laws, rules, and
   regulations as may lawfully be made by His Majesty’s authority for
   the peace, order, and good government of the Union Islands as herein-
   before defined conferred on the Governor-General in Council by the
   Union Islands (No. 2) Order in Council, 1925, is hereby delegated to
   the Administrator of Western Samoa for the time being appointed
   under the Samoa Act, 1921.
5. While the office of Administrator is vacant the said authority
   and power is hereby delegated to the Deputy Administrator of Western
   Samoa for the time being under the said Act, and such delegation shall
   continue in force until a new Administrator has been appointed and
   has assumed the duties of his office in Samoa.
6. If at any time the Deputy Administrator is by Warrant under
   the Seal of Samoa authorized to act as Acting-Administrator under the
   provisions of the said Act, then, and for so long as such authorization
   shall remain in force, the said authority and power is hereby delegated
   to the Deputy Administrator acting as Acting-Administrator as afore-
   said.
7. All powers and authorities which by the laws in force in the
   Union Islands at the time when the Union Islands (No. 2) Order in
   Council, 1925, took effect were then vested in the High Commissioner
   for the Western Pacific and officers appointed by him, and which by
   virtue of the Union Islands (No. 2) Order in Council, 1925, were there-
   upon vested in and exercisable by the Governor-General and the officers
   appointed by him, are hereby declared to be vested in and exercisable
   by the Administrator of Western Samoa and the Deputy Administrator
   of Western Samoa in the like manner and upon the like occasions as
   the authority and power by the preceding clauses of this Order dele-
   gated to the said Administrator and Deputy Administrator respectively;
   and the said Administrator and Deputy Administrator respectively are
   hereby accordingly appointed by His Excellency the Governor-General
   as officers in and by whom the powers and authorities vested by such
   laws as aforesaid shall be vested and exercisable.
8. No act done by the Deputy Administrator under the powers
   hereby conferred shall be questioned or invalidated on the ground that
   the occasion for so acting had not arisen or had ceased, and no act
   done by the Administrator shall be questioned or invalidated on the
   ground that any power in the Deputy Administrator so to act was still.
   in force.
9. Notwithstanding the delegation hereinbefore contained, the
   Governor-General in Council may himself exercise all or any of the
   powers conferred upon him by the Union Islands (No. 2) Order in
   Council, 1925.
10. The Governor-General in Council may from time to time
    revoke, alter, add to, or amend this Order.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.