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Interpretation.
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read and construed as a reference to that office or department, as the case may be, by such new style.
denoting
(11) Any word or expression, denoting distance shall Expressions denote distance measured in a straight line on a horizontal distance plane.
[cf. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 34.]
of days.
9 of 1950,
(12) In computing a period of days from the happening of an event for the doing of any act or thing there shall be excluded the day on which the event happens or the act or thing is done and, if the period is less than six days, any general holiday within such period.
(13) A prescribed act or thing shall, if no time is prescribed, be done with all convenient speed and as often as the prescribed occasion arises.
Provision prescribed.
where no time
the Crown Enactments,
when binding
(14) No enactment shall be binding on unless it appears expressly or by necessary implication that on the Crown. the Crown shall be bound thereby.
PART II. ENACTMENTS.
(Character-Citation-Reference-Commencement.)
4. Every Ordinance shall be a public Ordinance, and Ordinances. shall be judicially noticed as such together..-
[cf. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 9.]
ibid. s. 8.
5. Every section of an Ordinance shall have effect as Sections. a substantive enactment without introductory words.
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etc. to be part
6. Every Schedule to or Table in any Ordinance Schedules, shall, together with any notes thereto, be construed and of Ordinances. have effect as part of the Ordinance.
of and in
Citation enactments thereto. Vict. c. 63, [cf. 52 & 53
and references
s. 35.]
7. (1) When any enactment is referred to it shall be sufficient for all purposes to cite such enactment by the short title thereof: Provided that in the case of an Ordinance it shall be sufficient either to cite the same by the year in which it was made and its number among the Ordinances of that year or, in the case of a revised edition (20 of 1948). of Ordinances issued under the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance, 1948, by its short title or chapter number; and the reference may in all cases be made according to the copies of enactments printed by the Government Printer.
Amendments. [cf. 52 & 53
(2) A reference in an enactment to another includes a reference to such last-mentioned enactment as the same may Vict. c. 63,
s. 38(1).]
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