THE TERRITORY OF COCOS
(KEELING) ISLANDS.
No. 3 of 1964.
AN ORDINANCE
To amend the Interpretation Ordinance 1955-1962.
I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955-1963.
Dated this twenty-seventh day of August, 1964.
E. W. WOODWARD
Administrator.
By His Excellency's Command,
C. E. BARNES
Minister of State for Territories.
INTERPRETATION ORDINANCE 1964.
Short title and citation
1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation Ordinance 1964.*
( 2. ) The Interpretation Ordinance 1955-1962,± as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Interpretation Ordinance 1955-1964.
References to Magistrates
2. After section twenty-five of the Interpretation Ordinance 1955-1962 the following section is inserted:—
" 26. In an Ordinance, in regulations made under an Ordinance and in any other law of the Territory, a reference to a magistrate shall, on and after the commencement of this section and notwithstanding any definition of the word ' magistrate ' in the Ordinance, regulations or other law of the Territory, be a reference to a Special Magistrate appointed, or deemed to have been appointed, under section ninety-two of the Courts Ordinance, 1955 of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory and as amended by the Courts (Amendment) Ordinance 1955 and the Courts (Amendment) Ordinance 1964.".
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 10th September, 1964,
± Ordinance No. 1, 1955, as amended by No. 1, 1958 and No. 1, 1962.