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No. 31 of 1911.
INTERPRETATION.
INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
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acting under authority of enactment. [c. No. 15
of 1935,
s. 98, and
No. 18 of
any public officer for anything done or omitted to be done in pursuance of any enactment shall be commenced within six months after the act or omission, and not otherwise.
(2) In any such action the defendant may plead the general 1835, s. 170.] issue, and give this Ordinance and any special matter in evidence
at any trial to be had thereupon.
(3) No plaintiff shall recover in any such action if tender of sufficient amends has been made before such action brought, or if a sufficient sum of money has been paid into court after such action brought, by or on behalf of the defendant.
(4) If a verdict passes for the defendant, or the plaintiff is nonsuited or discontinues any such action after issue joined, or if judgment is given against the plaintiff, the defendant shall recover his full costs as between solicitor and client and shall have the like remedy for the same as any defendant has by law in other cases; and though a verdict passes or judgment is given for the plaintiff in any such action, the plaintiff shall not have costs against the defendant unless the judge before whom the trial is had certifies his approbation of the action.
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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 Contracts Government or for the public service by the Crown Agents, shall, by Crown so far as the same come within the jurisdiction of the courts of the
Agents, Colony, be deemed to have been made by the Governor.
52. The omission to add the title of the public office held by Omission of any Governor or public officer signing or executing any such title after contract or other document as aforesaid after the signature of public officer
signature of such officer shall not exclude such contract or other document immaterial. from the operation of this Part.
Contracts
by public officers.
[rf. No. 10
of 1923,
s 20.]
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Effect of contracts
already made by public officers.
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PART VIII.
Of Government contracts.
49. In all contracts or other documents hereafter signed, executed or made by the Governor or by any public officer on behalf of the Governor or Government or of the public service, it shall not be necessary to name such Governor or officer; it shall be sufficient to name the office he holds; and the Governor or officer performing the duties of the office named shall (unless the contrary intention appears) be deemed to be a party thereto as if the office of such Governor or officer was a corporation sole with perpetual succession for this purpose.
50. Every contract and other document heretofore signed, executed or made by any Governor or other public officer on behalf of the Governor or Government or of the public service
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
PART IX.
Miscellaneous.
Acts.
53. (1) In any Ordinance, instrument or document any Citation of Act of the Imperial Parliament may be cited by reference to its Imperial short title, if any, either with or without a reference to the chapter, 52 & 53 Vict. or by reference to the regnal year in which it was passed; and c. 63, s. 35. 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.
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(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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