Title: Interpretation acts : origins and meaning /
Authors: Jacobi, Chad
Year: 2019
Subjects: Law Australia Interpretation and construction.; Statutes Australia.; Common law Australia.; Law.; Law Interpretation and construction.; Australia
Contents: INTRODUCTION -- Interpretation acts -- PRELIMINARY -- Binding the Crown -- Acts deemed to be Public Acts -- DEFINITIONS -- "Persons" and "Corporations" -- "Month" -- "Oaths" -- "Land" -- "County" -- STATUTES -- Commencement and evidence of assent -- Citation and reference -- Revival -- Amendment and repeal in the same session -- GENERAL RULES -- Effect of repeal -- Material parts of an Act -- Within Power -- Remedial reading -- Gender and Number -- Prescribed forms -- An Act is "Always Speaking" -- Confirming an interpretation -- Substitution -- "May" and "Shall" -- Double jeopardy -- Penalties -- DISTANCE AND TIME -- Distance -- Time -- Acting with "all convenient speed" -- POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES -- From time to time -- Power to appoint and re-appoint -- Purported acts and 'de facto' officers -- Delegation -- INSTRUMENTS -- Same meaning.