D. 1897.]
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39.(1.) In any Ordinance, instrument, or document, an Act of Parliament may be cited by reference to the short title, if any, of the Act, either with or without a reference to the chapter or by reference to the regnal year in which the Act 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 enactment may be cited by reference to the section or sub-section of the Act in which the enactment is contained.
(2.) Where any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this Ordinance contains such reference as aforesaid, the reference shall, unless a contrary intention appears, be read as referring, in the case of statutes included in any revised edition of the statutes purporting to be printed by authority, to that edition; and in the case of statutes not so included, and passed before the reign of King George the First, to the edition prepared under the direction of the Record Commission; and in other cases to the copies of the statutes purporting to be printed by the Queen's Printer or under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
(3.) In any Ordinance passed after the commencement of this Ordinance, a description or citation of a portion of an Act of Parliament shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including the word, section, or other part mentioned or referred to as forming the beginning and as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation.
40. (1.) Where by any Ordinance, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, an Act of Parliament, or any portion of an Act, is declared to extend to this Colony, such Act or portion of an Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to extend to the Colony so far only as local laws and circumstances permit; and, in applying such Act or portion of an Act, it shall be construed with such verbal alteration, not affecting the substance, as may be necessary to render the same applicable to the particular matter in question.
(2.) A Judge of the Supreme Court, or any officer or functionary exercising functions analogous to the functions of any judge, officer or functionary referred to in such Act or portion of an Act, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the enactment thereof relating to such last-mentioned judge, officer, or functionary.
D. 1897.]
INTERPRETATION.
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40. (1.) Where by any Ordinance, whether passed before or after Construction the commencement of this Ordinance, an Act of Parliament, or any Parliament portion of an Act, is declared to extend to this Colony, such Act or portion of an Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to extend to the Colony so far only as local laws and circumstances permit; and, in applying such Act or portion of an Act, it shall be con- strued with such verbal alteration, not affecting the substance, as may be necessary to render the same applicable to the particular matter in
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(2.) A Judge of the Supreme Court, or any officer or functionary exercising functions analogous to the functions of any judge, officer Or functionary referred to in such Act or portion of an Act, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the enactment thereof relating to uch last-mentioned judge, officer, or functionary.
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