Interpretation Ordinance 1958 (CI) (Cth)
TERRITORY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
Interpretation Ordinance 1958
Ordinance No. 1 of 1958 as amended
made under the
Christmas Island Act 1958
This compilation was prepared on 18 June 2004
taking into account amendments up to Ordinance No. 3 of 2004
The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra
Contents
Part IPreliminary
1Short title [see Note 1] 4
4Application of Ordinance 4
4AWestern Australian Acts 4
Part IIProvisions applicable to Ordinances generally
5Interpretation 5
6Application of Acts Interpretation Act to Ordinances 7
6BReferences to the Administrator 7
7Numbering of Ordinances 7
8Citation of Acts and Ordinances 7
8AReferences to Ordinances 8
8BReferences to Acts 9
9Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances etc 9
10Proof of Gazette etc 10
11Compliance with forms 11
12Offences under 2 or more laws 11
13Attempt to commit offence 11
14Civil rights not affected 11
15Regulations 11
16Numbering of regulations 13
Part IIIProvisions relating to laws continued in force by the Act or adopted as laws of the Territory
18References to expression in certain laws 14
19References in continued or adopted laws 15
20Power to make regulations etc 16
21Powers and functions under continued laws etc 17
22Notification and commencement of regulations etc 17
23References to Singapore currency 17
24References to persons, places, matters and things in existing laws 18
25Citation of Ordinances of Colony of Singapore 19
26References to Ordinances of Colony of Singapore 19
27Discontinuance of adopted laws deemed to be a repeal 19
Notes 21
An Ordinance for the Interpretation of Ordinances and for Shortening their Language
Part I Preliminary
Short title [see Note 1]
This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation Ordinance 1958.
Application of Ordinance
(1) Except where the contrary intention appears, this Ordinance applies to all Ordinances including this Ordinance.
(2) This Ordinance binds the Crown.
(3) Where an Ordinance confers upon a person or authority power to make, grant or issue an instrument (including regulations, rules or rules of court) then, unless the contrary intention appears, this Ordinance applies to and in relation to an instrument so made, granted or issued as if that instrument were an Ordinance.
4A Western Australian Acts
(1) A reference in an Ordinance to the short title of a Western Australian Act, followed by “(W.A.)” or “(WA)” is a reference to the Act as in force in Western Australia.
(2) A reference in an Ordinance to the short title of a Western Australian Act, followed by “(W.A.)(C.I.)” or “(WA)(CI)” is a reference to the Act as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8A of the Act.
Part II Provisions applicable to Ordinances generally
Interpretation
(1) In an Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears:
Act means an Act of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
applied law means a law of Western Australia as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8A of the Act.
barrister, solicitor or barrister and solicitor means a person entitled, under section 55D of the Judiciary Act 1903, to practise as a barrister and solicitor in any Territory of the Commonwealth.
Commissioner for Affidavits means a person appointed under the Supreme Court Ordinance 1958 to take and receive affidavits.
Commonwealth Ordinance means an Ordinance made under section 9 of the Act.
Gazette means:
(a) the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette published before or after the period that commenced on 1 July 1973 and ended on 30 June 1977;
(b) the Australian Government Gazette published during that period; or
(c) the Government Gazette of the Territory.
Imperial Act means an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
medical practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners and whose registration or licence is not suspended under such a law.
movable property means property of every description except immovable property.
Ordinance includes:
(a) a Commonwealth Ordinance; or
(b) a Singapore Ordinance.
police officer means:
(a) a member or a special member of the Australian Federal Police; or
(b) a member of a State or Territory police force appointed by the Minister, under subsection 8G (6) of the Christmas Island Act, to provide police services for the Territory.
registered, in relation to a document, means registered under the provisions of the law for the time being applicable to the registration of that document.
regulations means regulations made under the Ordinance.
rules means rules made under the Ordinance.
Singapore Ordinance means an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory, as in force in the Territory in accordance with section 8 of the Act.
subsidiary legislation means any order in council, proclamation, rule, regulation, order, notification, by-law or other instrument made under an Ordinance or other lawful authority and having legislative effect.
the Act means the Christmas Island Act 1958.
the Administrator means the Administrator of the Territory holding office under the Administration Ordinance 1968.
the Children’s Court means the Children’s Court of Christmas Island established by the Children’s Court Ordinance 1972.
the Christmas Island Order in Council, 1957 means the Christmas Island Order in Council, 1957 made under the Imperial Act known as the Straits Settlements (Repeal) Act, 1946.
the commencement of the Act means the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection (2) of section two of the Act.
the Minister means the Minister of State for the Commonwealth for the time being administering the Act.
the Supreme Court means the Supreme Court of Christmas Island.
the Territory means the Territory of Christmas Island.
Western Australian Act means an Act passed by the Parliament of Western Australia.
(2) Where an Ordinance confers upon a person or authority power to make, grant or issue an instrument (including regulations, rules or rules of court) then, unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used in an instrument so made, granted or issued shall be deemed to have the same meanings as in the Ordinance conferring the power.
Application of Acts Interpretation Act to Ordinances
Subject to this Ordinance, the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (except sections 5 and 15A, paragraphs 26 (e) and 27 (d), section 30, sections 37 to 40 (inclusive), paragraph 46 (a) and sections 47, 48 and 49), as amended from time to time, apply, so far as they are capable of application, to and in relation to Ordinances, including this Ordinance, as if an Ordinance were an Act.
6B References to the Administrator
Where, in an Ordinance, the Administrator is referred to, the reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to include the person for the time being exercising the powers and performing the functions of the Administrator under section 7 or section 8 of the Administration Ordinance 1968.
Numbering of Ordinances
Ordinances made under the Act in each secular year shall be numbered in regular arithmetical series, beginning with the number one, in the order in which notice of their making is published in the Gazette.
Citation of Acts and Ordinances
(1) In an Ordinance, instrument or document:
(a) an Act may be cited by its short title, or by reference to the secular year in which it was passed and its number;
(b) an Ordinance may be cited by its short title, or by reference to the secular year in which it was passed and its number; and
(c) an Imperial Act may be cited by its short title (if any), or by reference to the regnal year in which it was passed and its chapter.
(2) An enactment may be cited by reference to the part, section, subsection or other division of the Act, Ordinance or Imperial Act in which the enactment is contained.
(3) Every such reference shall be made:
(a) in the case of an Act or an Ordinance made under the Christmas Island Act 1958 — according to a copy of the Act or Ordinance printed or purporting to be printed by the Government Printer of the Commonwealth;
(b) in the case of an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore — according to a copy of the Ordinance printed or purporting to be printed by the Government Printer of that Colony; and
(c) in the case of an Imperial Act — according to a copy of the Act printed or purporting to be printed by the Queen’s Printer in London.
8A References to Ordinances
Where an Ordinance contains:
(a) a reference to the short title of another Ordinance as originally made; or
(b) a reference to a method of citation that is, or at any time has been, provided by law for the citation of another Ordinance as amended,
then, except so far as the contrary intention appears:
(c) the reference shall be construed as a reference to that other Ordinance as originally made and as amended from time to time; and
(d) where that other Ordinance has been repealed and remade, with or without modification, the reference shall be construed as including a reference to the remade Ordinance as originally made and as amended from time to time and, where, in connexion with that reference, particular provisions of the repealed Ordinance are referred to, being provisions to which provisions of the remade Ordinance correspond, the reference to those particular provisions shall be construed as including a reference to those corresponding provisions.
8B References to Acts
Where an Ordinance contains:
(a) a reference to the short title of an Act as originally enacted; or
(b) a reference to a method of citation that is, or at any time has been, provided by law for the citation of an Act as amended,
then, except so far as the contrary intention appears:
(c) the reference shall be construed as a reference to the Act as originally enacted and as amended from time to time; and
(d) where that Act has been repealed and re-enacted, with or without modification, the reference shall be construed as including a reference to the re-enacted Act as originally enacted and as amended from time to time and, where, in connexion with that reference, particular provisions of the repealed Act are referred to, being provisions to which provisions of the re-enacted Act correspond, the reference to those particular provisions shall be construed as including a reference to those corresponding provisions.
Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances etc
(1) All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of:
(a) a Commonwealth Ordinance; and
(b) an applied law; and
(c) a Singapore Ordinance; and
(d) an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore as defined in subsection (2); and
(e) regulations, rules, rules of court, by-laws, proclamations or orders or any other instruments made under a law referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).
(2) In paragraph 1 (d), Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore means:
(a) an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory under section 7 of the Act as in force before 1 July 1992; or
(b) the provisions of an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore applying by virtue of an Ordinance made under section 9 of the Act as a law of the Territory before 1 July 1992; or
(c) an Imperial Act or Order in Council in its application to the Territory under section 7 of the Act as in force before 1 July 1992; or
(d) an Ordinance of the Colony of the Straits Settlements in force in the Colony of Singapore immediately before the commencement of the Act or the date of its application as a law of the Territory; or
(e) a law referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) as amended or affected by a Commonwealth Ordinance.
Proof of Gazette etc
(1) The mere production of a paper purporting to be the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, the Australian Government Gazette or the Government Gazette of the Territory is, in all courts, evidence that the paper is the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, the Australian Government Gazette or the Government Gazette of the Territory, as the case may be, and was published on the day on which it bears date.
(2) Where by a law in force in the Territory the Governor‑General or a Minister is authorized or empowered to make an appointment or do any other act, production of the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, of the Australian Government Gazette or of the Government Gazette of the Territory purporting to contain a copy or notification of that appointment or act is, in all courts, evidence of the appointment or act having been duly made or done.
Compliance with forms
Where forms are prescribed for the purposes of an Ordinance, substantial compliance with those forms is, unless the contrary intention appears, sufficient.
Offences under 2 or more laws
(1) Where an act or omission constitutes offences under 2 or more Ordinances, or constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an offence at common law, the offender is, unless the contrary intention appears, liable to be prosecuted and convicted under either or any of those Ordinances or under that Ordinance or at common law, but is not liable to be punished more than once in respect of that act or omission.
(2) Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under an Ordinance and an Act and the offender has been punished for the offence under the Act, the offender is not liable to be punished for the offence under the Ordinance.
Attempt to commit offence
A provision in an Ordinance which constitutes an offence shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to provide also that an attempt to commit that offence is an offence against that provision punishable as if the attempted offence had been committed.
Civil rights not affected
The imposition of a penalty by an Ordinance in respect of an act or omission does not, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, affect the right of any person to institute civil proceedings in respect of that act or omission.
Regulations
(1) Where an Ordinance confers power to make regulations, then, unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) notice of the making of regulations made accordingly and of the place where copies of those regulations may be purchased shall be published in the Gazette;
(b) subject to this section, regulations made accordingly take effect from the date of publication of the notice referred to in paragraph (a) or, where another date is specified in the regulations, from the date so specified; and
(c) regulations made accordingly shall be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the making of the regulations.
(2) Regulations shall not be expressed to take effect from a date before the date of publication of the notice referred to in subsection (1) in a case where, if the regulations so took effect:
(a) the rights of a person (other than the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth) existing at that date would be affected in a manner prejudicial to that person; or
(b) liabilities would be imposed on a person (other than the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before that date,
and where, in any regulations, a provision is made in contravention of this subsection, that provision is void and of no effect.
(3) If any regulations are not laid before each House in accordance with this section, they are, and shall be deemed to have been, void and of no effect.
(4) If either House of the Parliament passes a resolution (of which notice has been given at any time within 15 sitting days after the day on which the regulations have been laid before that House) disallowing any of those regulations, the regulations so disallowed shall thereupon cease to have effect.
(5) If, at the expiration of 15 sitting days after the day on which notice of a resolution to disallow any regulations has been given in either House of the Parliament in accordance with subsection (4), the resolution has not been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of, the regulations specified in the resolution shall thereupon be deemed to have been disallowed.
(6) Where regulations are disallowed, or are deemed to be disallowed, under this section, the disallowance has the same effect as a repeal of the regulations, except that, if the regulations amended or repealed a law in force immediately before the regulations took effect, the disallowance revives the previous law from and including the date of the disallowance, as if the disallowed regulations had not been made.
(7) In this section, regulations includes rules and rules of court.
Numbering of regulations
(1) The regulations made under Ordinances in each secular year shall be numbered in regular arithmetical series, beginning with the number one, in the order in which notice of their making is published in the Gazette.
(2) Regulations may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by reference to the secular year in which notice of their making was published in the Gazette and the number assigned to them under the last preceding subsection.
(3) In this section, regulations includes rules and rules of court.
Part III Provisions relating to laws continued in force by the Act or adopted as laws of the Territory
References to expression in certain laws
(1) Subject to section 20, in relation to anything done or to be done after the commencement of this Ordinance, an expression specified in Column 1 of the following table in a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act or in a law of the Colony of Singapore adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance shall be read as a reference to the person, authority or thing specified in Column 2 of that table opposite to that expression:
Column 1
Column 2
advocate or advocate and solicitor A barrister or solicitor as defined in section 5 medical practitioner A medical practitioner as defined in section 5 the Administrator The Minister the Colony, the Colony of Christmas Island, the Colony of Singapore or the Settlement of Singapore The Territory the Gazette or the Government Gazette The Commonwealth of Australia Gazette published before or after the period that commenced on 1 July 1973 and ended on 30 June 1977, the Australian Government Gazette published during that period or the Government Gazette of the Territory the Governor The Minister the Governor in Council The Governor-General the Legislative Assembly The Governor-General
(2) In relation to anything done or to be done after the commencement of this Ordinance, a reference in a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act or in a law of the Colony of Singapore adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance to a Minister or Ministers of the Colony of Singapore shall be read as a reference to the Minister of State for the Commonwealth administering the Act.
References in continued or adopted laws
(1) In a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act or in a law of the Colony of Singapore adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance:
(a) a reference to the Colony of the Straits Settlements or to a Settlement of that Colony shall be read as a reference to the Territory;
(b) a reference to Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, or a part of those Forces, shall be read as a reference to the Defence Force of the Commonwealth, or the corresponding part of that Force; and
(c) a reference to the number of a line of a section or provision of an Ordinance shall be read as a reference to that line in the latest official printed copy of that Ordinance at the time of the passing or making of the law in which the reference appears.
(2) In a law (not being an Imperial Act or Order in Council) continued in force in the Territory by the Act, or in a law of the Colony of Singapore adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) a reference to a ship shall be read as including every description of vessel used in navigation, not being a vessel exclusively propelled by oars or paddles;
(b) a reference to the master, in relation to a ship, shall be read as a reference to any person, except a pilot or harbour master, having for the time being control or charge of the ship;
(c) a reference to value, in relation to a suit, shall be read as a reference to the value of the subject-matter of the suit; and
(d) a reference to a year shall be read as a reference to a year according to the British calendar.
(3) In a law (not being an Imperial Act or Order in Council) continued in force in the Territory by the Act or in a law of the Colony of Singapore adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears:
act, in relation to an offence or civil wrong, includes a series of acts, and words which refer to acts extend to illegal omissions.
animal includes birds, reptiles, fish and every kind of vertebrate animal and their young.
Chapter, Part, section and Schedule mean respectively a Chapter, Part and section of, and a Schedule to, the law in which the word occurs.
common law means the common law of England.
subsection means a subsection of the section in which the word occurs.
(4) In an order, proclamation, rule, regulation or by-law continued in force in the Territory by the Act or adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance, the expression the Ordinance shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as a reference to the Ordinance under the authority of which that order, proclamation, rule, regulation or by-law was made.
Power to make regulations etc
Where:
(a) an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore continued in force in the Territory by the Act or adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance confers power to make regulations, rules or rules of court; and
(b) that power is expressed to be conferred on the Governor in Council of that Colony,
that power shall be deemed to be conferred on, and is exercisable by, the Minister.
Powers and functions under continued laws etc
Where a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act or a law of the Colony of Singapore adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance confers a power or function on a person or authority (not being a person or authority specified in Column 1 of the table in subsection 18 (1)) that power or function may be exercised or performed by such person or authority as the Minister directs.
Notification and commencement of regulations etc
(1) The provisions of section 15 apply in relation to regulations made, after the commencement of this Ordinance, under an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore continued in force in the Territory by the Act, notwithstanding any contrary intention in that Ordinance, and to the exclusion of any provision in that Ordinance relating to the publication, or the disallowance or disapproval, of regulations made under that Ordinance, or the date on which such regulations take effect or come into force.
(2) A reference in an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore continued in force in the Territory by the Act to regulations published, or made and published, under the Ordinance or a provision of the Ordinance shall, in relation to regulations made after the commencement of this Ordinance, be read as reference to regulations made under that Ordinance or that provision of that Ordinance, being regulations in respect of which a notice has been published in the Gazette in accordance with paragraph 15 (1) (a).
(3) A provision in an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore continued in force in the Territory by the Act requiring regulations to be laid or tabled before any person or authority shall, upon the commencement of this Ordinance, cease to have effect.
(4) In this section, regulations includes rules and rules of court.
References to Singapore currency
(1) A reference in a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act or adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance to an amount of money expressed in currency of the Colony of Singapore shall be read as a reference to the equivalent amount in Australian currency.
(2) Where it is necessary for the purposes of subsection (1) or for the purposes of any Ordinance or law made under an Ordinance to convert an amount expressed in currency of the Colony of Singapore to the equivalent amount in Australian currency, the conversion shall be made on the basis that:
(a) .294 dollar in Australian currency is the equivalent of One dollar in the currency of the Colony of Singapore; and
(b) .294 cent in Australian currency is the equivalent of one cent in the currency of the Colony of Singapore.
(3) Where, a calculation in accordance with subsection (2) results in the ascertainment of an amount in Australian currency that includes a percentage of a cent, then:
(a) if the percentage is not greater than 0.45, the percentage shall be disregarded; or
(b) if the percentage exceeds 0.45, the amount in cents shall be deemed to be increased by adding one to the number of cents (without the percentage).
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (2) or (3), the equivalent of an amount of 4 cents or less in the currency of the Colony of Singapore shall be deemed to be one cent in Australian currency.
(5) In this section, a reference to the currency of the Colony of Singapore is a reference to the currency the continued use of which was authorized by subsection 19 (1) of the Christmas Island Act 1958.
References to persons, places, matters and things in existing laws
Subject to this Ordinance, a law continued in force in the Territory by the Act, or adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance, shall be read with such formal alterations as to persons, places, matters and things as are necessary to make the same applicable to the circumstances of the Territory.
Citation of Ordinances of Colony of Singapore
(1) An Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore included in a revised edition of Ordinances issued before 31 December 1957 under a law of that Colony providing for the issue of a revised edition of Ordinances may be cited or referred to:
(a) by its chapter number; or
(b) by its short title as shown in that revised edition of Ordinances.
(2) Any such citation or reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the Ordinance as amended from time to time by any other Ordinance or law.
References to Ordinances of Colony of Singapore
A reference in an Ordinance to an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed:
(a) in the case of an Ordinance continued in force by the Act — to be a reference to that Ordinance as in force immediately before the commencement of the Act and as amended by laws made under the Act; and
(b) in the case of an Ordinance adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance made under the Act — to be a reference to the adopted Ordinance as amended by laws made under the Act.
Discontinuance of adopted laws deemed to be a repeal
(1) A provision in an Ordinance that an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore (including an Ordinance of that Colony adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance), or an Act adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance is, in its application to the Territory, repealed or that such an Ordinance or Act shall cease to apply, or be in force, in the Territory shall be deemed to be the repeal of an Ordinance.
(2) Where an Ordinance provides that an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore (including an Ordinance of that Colony adopted as a law of the Territory by an Ordinance) is, in its application to the Territory, repealed or that such an Ordinance shall cease to apply, or be in force, in the Territory, then, unless the contrary is expressly provided, all subsidiary legislation in force under that Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore shall, by force of that provision, cease to be in force in the Territory.
Notes to the Interpretation Ordinance 1958
Note 1
The Interpretation Ordinance 1958 (in force under the Christmas Island Act 1958) as shown in this compilation comprise Ordinance No. 1 of 1958 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Ordinances
| Year and | Date of notification | Date of | Application, saving or |
| No. 1, 1958 | 19 Sept 1958 | 19 Sept 1958 | |
| No. 1, 1960 | 1 Sept 1960 | 1 Sept 1960 | — |
| No. 1, 1962 | 22 Mar 1962 | 22 Mar 1962 | — |
| No. 4, 1964 | 10 Sept 1964 | 10 Sept 1964 | — |
| No. 1, 1966 | 11 Feb 1966 | 14 Feb 1966 | — |
| No. 2, 1967 | 18 Jan 1968 | 18 Jan 1968 | — |
| No. 2, 1968 | 29 Apr 1968 | 29 Apr 1968 | — |
| No. 4, 1972 | 30 Nov 1972 | 30 Nov 1972 | — |
| No. 2, 1973 | 6 Sept 1973 | 6 Sept 1973 | — |
| No. 3, 1976 | 1 Sept 1976 | 1 Sept 1976 | [see Note 2] |
| No. 7, 1977 | 30 June 1977 | 30 June 1977 | — |
| No. 9, 1980 | 23 Dec 1980 | 23 Dec 1980 | — |
| No. 6, 1987 | 6 Nov 1987 | 6 Nov 1987 | — |
| No. 16, 1987 | 11 Jan 1988 | 11 Jan 1988 | — |
| No. 4, 1992 | 30 June 1992 | 1 July 1992 | — |
| No. 1, 1999 | 24 Mar 1999 | 24 Mar 1999 | — |
| No. 3, 2004 | 18 June 2004 | 18 June 2004 | — |
Table of Amendments
| ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted | |
| Provision affected | How affected |
| S. 2......................................... | am. No. 6, 1987 |
| rep. No. 4, 1992 | |
| S. 3......................................... | am. No. 2, 1968 |
| rep. No. 6, 1987 | |
| S. 4......................................... | am. No. 4, 1992 |
| S. 4A....................................... | ad. No. 4, 1992 |
| am. No. 1, 1999 | |
| S. 5......................................... | am. No. 1, 1960; No. 4, 1964; No. 2, 1968; No. 4, 1972; No. 2, 1973; No. 7, 1977; No. 6, 1987; No. 4, 1992; No. 1, 1999; No. 3, 2004 |
| S. 6......................................... | am. Nos. 6 and 16, 1987 |
| S. 6A....................................... | ad. No. 1, 1966 |
| rep. No. 1, 1999 | |
| S. 6B....................................... | ad. No. 2, 1968 |
| S. 8A....................................... | ad. No. 3, 1976 |
| S. 8B....................................... | ad. No. 3, 1976 |
| S. 9......................................... | rs. No. 4, 1992 |
| S. 10....................................... | am. No. 2, 1973 |
| S. 12....................................... | rep. No. 9, 1980 |
| ad. No. 16, 1987 | |
| S. 15....................................... | am. No. 1, 1962; No. 6, 1987 |
| S. 17....................................... | rep. No. 2, 1968 |
| S. 18....................................... | am. No. 1, 1960; No. 1, 1962; No. 2, 1973; No. 7, 1977; No. 6, 1987 |
| S. 21....................................... | am. No. 1, 1960; No. 6, 1987 |
| S. 22....................................... | am. No. 6, 1987 |
| S. 23....................................... | am. No.1, 1966; No. 2, 1967; No. 6, 1987 |
| S. 25....................................... | am. No. 6, 1987 |
Note 2
Section 3 of the Ordinances Citation Ordinance 1976 (No. 3 of 1976) provides as follows:
3 Short titles of amended Ordinances
(1) Where:
(a) immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, an Ordinance (in this subsection called the principal Ordinance) was in force as amended by another Ordinance (in this subsection called the amending Ordinance); and
(b) the amending Ordinance provided that the principal Ordinance, as so amended, may be cited by a method of citation specified in the amending Ordinance,
the principal Ordinance shall be deemed to be amended by substituting that method of citation for the short title of the principal Ordinance.
(2) Where, by virtue of an amendment deemed to be made by subsection (1), an Ordinance contains a provision that the Ordinance may be cited by a method of citation that contains figures referring to 2 years, that provision is amended by omitting so much of the method of citation as follows the reference to the first of those years.
(3) Where, by virtue of an amendment deemed to be made by subsection (1), an Ordinance contains a provision that the Ordinance may be cited by a method of citation that contains the word Ordinances immediately before figures referring to a year, that provision is amended by omitting the word Ordinances and substituting the word Ordinance.
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