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No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
Contracts by Crown Agents.
Omission of title after signature of public officer immaterial.
shall (unless the contrary intention appears) be deemed to have been made by such Governor or officer on behalf of himself and his successors in office, and shall be enforceable by the Governor or officer performing the duties of the office named, or by the Attorney General on behalf of such Governor or officer as if the office of such Governor or officer had, at the time of such execution or making, been a corporation sole with perpetual succession for this purpose.
51. Contracts made or to be made in England, for the Government or for the public service by the Crown Agents, shall, so far as the same come within the jurisdiction of the courts of the Colony, be deemed to have been made by the Governor.
52. The omission to add the title of the public office held by any Governor or public officer signing or executing any such contract or other document as aforesaid after the signature of such officer shall not exclude such contract or other document from the operation of this Part.
Citation of Imperial Acts.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 35.
PART IX.
Miscellaneous.
53. (1) In any Ordinance, instrument or document any Act of the Imperial Parliament may be cited by reference to its short title, if any, either with or without a reference to the chapter, or by reference to the regnal year in which it was passed; and where there are more statutes or sessions than one in the same regnal year, by reference to the statute or the session, as the case may require; and where there are more chapters than one, by reference to the chapter; and any provision of any Act may be cited by reference to the section or sub-section of the Act in which the provision is contained.
(2). Where any Ordinance passed after the 1st day of January, 1898, contains such reference as aforesaid, the reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring, in the
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
+ Commencement of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1897: see No. 24 of 1897, s. 43.
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