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19-549: The Public Health Acts is the collective title of the following Acts: The Public Health Acts 1936 and 1937 is the collective title of the Public Health Act 1936 ( 26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8 . c. 49) and the Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937 . The Public Health (Scotland) Acts 1897 and 1907 was the collective title of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 ( 60 & 61 Vict. c. 38) and

38-708: A repealed enactment . Interpretation Act 1978 The Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . The Act makes provision for the interpretation of Acts of Parliament, Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England , Measures of the Church Assembly , subordinate legislation , "deeds and other instruments and documents", Acts of

57-494: A measurement of distance refers to measurement in a straight line on a horizontal plane . The following cases are relevant to this section: Section 18 provides: Where an act or omission constitutes an offence under two or more Acts, or both under an Act and at common law, the offender shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either or any of those Acts or at common law, but shall not be liable to be punished more than once for

76-444: Is a contrary intention, wherever in any Act of Parliament or Statutory Instrument there are words importing the masculine gender, the words should be construed to incorporate the feminine and vice versa. Also, words in the singular include the plural, and as with the interchangeability of words importing gender so it is with the plural and singular. This section, concerned with service of documents by post, replaced section 26 of

95-562: Is not oppressive. See also Williams v Hallam (1943) 112 LJKB 353, (1943) 59 TLR 287, (1943) 41 LGR 165. The word "Act" means Act of Parliament . It includes a local and personal or private Act. A reference to an Act in this section is a reference to an Act to which this section applies. This section applies to Acts whenever passed. It applies to Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England, and, so far as it relates to Acts passed before 1 January 1979, to measures of

114-407: Is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post. Interpretation of the words unless the contrary is proved is discussed in the case of Calladine-Smith v Saveorder Ltd , as to whether the "contrary" means the contrary of the allegation that the letter was properly addressed, prepaid and posted, or whether it refers to the contrary of

133-493: Is the collective title of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1907 and the Public Health (Prevention and Treatment of Disease) Act 1917 ( 7 & 8 Geo. 5 . c. 40). The Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1918 is collective title of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1917 and the Public Health (Borrowing Powers) (Ireland) Act 1918 ( 8 & 9 Geo. 5 . c. 35) The Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1919

152-554: Is the collective title of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1918 and the Public Health (Medical Treatment of Children) (Ireland) Act 1919 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 5 . c. 16) Collective title A collective title is an expression by which two or more pieces of legislation may, under the law of the United Kingdom , be cited together. A famous example is the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 . Section 2(2) of

171-473: The Interpretation Act 1889 . It states that Where an Act authorises or requires any document to be served by post (whether the expression "serve" or the expression "give" or "send" or any other expression is used) then, unless the contrary intention appears, the service is deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the document and, unless the contrary

190-424: The Public Health (Scotland) Amendment Act 1907 ( 7 Edw. 7 . c. 30). The Public Health (Scotland) Acts 1897 to 1939 was the collective title of the Public Health (Scotland) Acts 1897 and 1907, and the Public Health (Coal Mine Refuse) (Scotland) Act 1939 ( 2 & 3 Geo. 6 . c. 23). The Public Health (Ireland) Acts is the collective title of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 ( 41 & 42 Vict. c 52) and

209-591: The Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890 ( 53 & 54 Vict. c. 59). The Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1896 is the collective title of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1890 and the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1896 ( 59 & 60 Vict. c. 54). Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1907 is the collective title of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1900 and the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907 ( 7 Edw. 7 . c. 53). The Public Health (Ireland) Acts 1878 to 1917

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228-656: The Scottish Parliament and instruments made thereunder (added 1998), and Measures and Acts of the National Assembly for Wales and instruments made thereunder. The Act makes provision in relation to: the construction of certain words and phrases, words of enactment , amendment or repeal of Acts in the Session they were passed, judicial notice , commencement, statutory powers and duties, the effect of repeals, and duplicated offences. The Act repealed

247-547: The Short Titles Act 1896 reads: If it is provided that any Act passed after this Act may, as to the whole or any part thereof, be cited with any of the groups of Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act, or with any group of Acts to which a collective title has been given by any Act passed before this Act, that group shall be construed as including that Act or part, and, if the collective title of

266-612: The Act (section 22) and, to the extent specified in Part I of Schedule 2, to Acts passed before the commencement of the Act. The Interpretation Act 1978 binds the Crown . This section replaces the corresponding provision of the Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793 . See Coming into force . Section 5 and Schedule 1 provide definitions of certain words and phrases. Unless it is clear there

285-496: The Church Assembly passed after 28 May 1925, as it applies to Acts. It applies to an Act of the Scottish Parliament as it applies to an "Act". For the application of this section to subordinate legislation, see section 23. And see also section 23A(2)(b). For section 19(1), see Citation of United Kingdom legislation § Interpretation of citations by year, statute, session, chapter, number or letter . This section

304-444: The deeming provision that the letter in question was delivered in the ordinary course of post. In this particular case, a letter was shown to have been properly addressed, pre-paid and posted, but not received. On a balance of probabilities the court accepted that the "contrary" to the deemed provision had been proved, the letter was not received, and therefore the deemed provision could not hold. Section 8 specifies that, in general,

323-425: The group states the first and last years of the group, the year in which that Act is passed shall be substituted for the last year of the group, and so on as often as a subsequent Act or part is added to the group. This provision is derived from section 1(3) of the Short Titles Act 1892 . Section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 does not authorise the continued use of a collective title previously authorised by

342-406: The same offence. This section replaces section 33 of the Interpretation Act 1889 . Humphreys J. said that that section did not add anything to the common law , or detract anything from it. The words "same offence" at the end of section 18 do not mean "same act" or "same cause". A person may be punished more than once for the same act. Two prosecutions for a single false statement in a brochure

361-478: The whole of the Interpretation Act 1889 , except for sections 13(4) and 13(5) and 13(14) in their application to Northern Ireland . The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies in the same way to Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly . The Interpretation Act 1978 applies to itself and to any Act passed after the commencement of

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