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(1) The President shall signify that he assents to a Bill, or that he assents to a part thereof and refuses his assent to the remainder, by signing on each copy of the Bill prepared in accordance with section 5 of this Act a statement to that effect in the form set out in Part III or Part IV of the Schedule to this Act, as the case may require, and causing the Presidential Seal to be affixed thereto.

(2) Where assent is given to a part only of a Bill the Clerk shall make in each copy of the Bill so prepared and such deletions, such amendments of figures, punctuation and grammar, as may be necessary for the purpose of the conversion of that part of the Bill into an Act; and the Bill shall thereafter be deemed to have been passed as so altered.

(3) A Bill or, as the case may be, a part thereof shall become an Act of Parliament on the signature by the President of the first of the said copies