Contents
1............ Short title [see Note 1]....................................................................... 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Application of Act............................................................................. 1
4............ Repeal and substitution of sections.................................................... 1
5............ Incorporation of amendments in reprints of Acts.............................. 2
6............ Short titles of amended Acts.............................................................. 2
Notes 4
An Act relating to the Citation of Acts
1
Short title [see
Note 1]
This Act may be cited as the Acts
Citation Act 1976.
2
Commencement
This Act shall come into operation on 1 July 1976.
3
Application of Act
Section 2 of the Acts
Interpretation Act 1901 as amended and in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and
substituting the following subsection:
“(1) Except so far as the contrary
intention appears, this Act applies to all Acts, including this Act.”
4 Repeal and substitution of sections
Sections 10 and 10A of the Acts
Interpretation Act 1901 as amended and in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act are repealed and the following section is substituted:
“10
References to amended or re‑enacted Acts
Where an Act contains a reference to a
short title that is or was provided by law for the citation of another Act as
originally enacted, or of another Act as amended, then, except so far as the
contrary intention appears:
(a) the reference shall be construed
as a reference to that other Act as originally enacted and as amended from time
to time; and
(b) where that other Act has been
repealed and re‑enacted, with or without modifications, the reference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originally enacted and as amended from time to time and, where, in connexion
with that reference, particular provisions of the repealed Act are referred to,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.”
5
Incorporation of amendments in reprints of Acts
(1) Section 2 of the Amendments
Incorporation Act 1905 as amended and in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act is amended by omitting subsection (2A) and
substituting the following subsection:
“(2A) Subsection (2) does not apply
in relation to an amendment:
(a) deemed to have been made by the
subsection for which this subsection was substituted by the Acts Citation
Act 1976; or
(b) made by section 6 of that
Act.”
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an
amendment that was, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act,
deemed to be in force by virtue of the provision omitted by subsection (1)
continues in force, subject to section 6 and to any further amendment, or
any repeal, coming into operation on or after that date.
6
Short titles of amended Acts
(1) Where:
(a) immediately before the
commencement of this Act, an Act was in force as amended; and
(b) the Act, as so in force,
contained, by virtue of an amendment deemed to have been made by subsection
2(2A) of the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905 as amended and in force
at any time, a provision that the Act 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.
(2) Where:
(a) immediately before the
commencement of this Act, an Act was in force as amended; and
(b) the Act, as so in force,
contained, by virtue of an amendment deemed to have been made by subsection
2(2A) of the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905 as amended and in force
at any time, a provision that the Act may be cited by a method of citation that
contains the word “Acts” immediately before figures referring to a year;
that provision is amended by omitting the word “Acts” and
substituting the word “Act”.