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commencement of the Imperial Statute or such other date as the adopting Act might fix. S. 10 (2) as it appears in the measure was not proposed by New Zealand (New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, 1931, pp. 685-686). For further notes on the provisions of this Act, see the Supplement to Halsbury's Statutes of England, under title " Dominions 1. Meaning of " Dominion " in this Act.—ln this Act the expression " Dominion " means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland. 2. Validity of laws made by Parliament of a Dominion.—(l) The Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made after the commencement of this Act by the Parliament of a Dominion. (2) No law and no provision of any law made after the commencement of this Act by the Parliament of a Dominion shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the Parliament of a Dominion shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as the same is part of the law of the Dominion. This section follows the recommendation of the Imperial Conference of 1930. It does not apply to New Zealand unless adopted. For the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, see p. 18, post. 3. Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially It is hereby declared and enacted that the Parliament of a Dominion has full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation. This section follows verbatim the recommendation submitted in the Legislation Conference Report. See the notes to this section in the Supplement to Halsbury's Statutes of England. This section does not apply to New Zealand unless adopted ; see s. 10, post. 4. Parliament of United Kingdom not to legislate for Dominion except by consent. —No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to a Dominion as part of the law of that Dominion, unless it is expressly declared in that Act that that Dominion has requested and consented to, the enactment thereof. This section follows the recommendation of the Imperial Conference of 1930. It does not apply to New Zealand unless adopted ; see s. 10, post. 5. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to merchant shipping.—Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Act, sections seven hundred and thirty-five and seven hundred and thirty-six of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall be construed as though reference therein to the Legislature of a British possession did not include reference to the Parliament of a Dominion. This section does not apply to New Zealand unless adopted ; see s. 10* post. For the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, see p. 20. 6. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to Courts of Admiralty. —Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Act, section four of the Colonial Courts of Admiralty