Interpretation.
CHAPTER 1.
INTERPRETATION.
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9 of 1950. 22 of 1950.
To amend and consolidate the law relating to the construction and interpretation of the law and to make better provision for the interpretation of the terminology employed therein and for matters incidental thereto.
[1st September, 1950.]
37 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation Ordinance.
2. (1) Save where the contrary intention appears either from this Ordinance or from the context of any enactment or instrument, the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply and shall apply only to this Ordinance and to all enactments now or hereafter in force made by competent authority in the Colony and to any instrument made or issued under or by virtue of any such enactment,
(2) This Ordinance shall be binding on the Crown.
PART I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF INTERPRETATION.
Schedule.
Interpretation of certain expressions.
3. (1) "act" used with reference to an offence or civil wrong, includes a series of acts, and words which refer to acts done extend to illegal omissions; "Act" or "Statute" means an Act or Statute of the Imperial Parliament;
"Admiralty" or "the Admiralty" means the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being or the Commissioners for the time being executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom; "amend" includes repeal, add to or vary and the doing of all or two or more of such things simultaneously or by the same instrument; "any enactment" or "any Ordinance" includes any enactment or any Ordinance, as the case may be, which is in force in the Colony at the time when the enactment in which the expression occurs is enforced or applied;
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52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 12(4).
28 of 1950, Schedule.