Acts
Interpretation Amendment Act 1980
No. 1 of 1980
An Act to amend
the Acts Interpretation Act 1901
[Assented to 1 March 1980]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Acts Interpretation Amendment Act 1980.
(2) The Acts Interpretation Act 1901 is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall be
deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1980.
Headings,
schedules, marginal notes, footnotes and endnotes
3. Section 13 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3) and substituting the
following sub-section:
“(3) No marginal note, footnote or
endnote to an Act, and no heading to a section of an Act, shall be taken to be
part of the Act.”.