Consolidated Statutes Enactment Act 1908

3 Provisions respecting such Acts

• With respect to each of the said Acts the following provisions shall apply:

  • (a) The Act shall operate and be construed as a separate Act with the Short Title named therein:

  • (b) The Act shall be deemed to be a consolidation of the enactments mentioned in the Schedule thereto, or if there are more Schedules than one, then in Schedule 1 thereto:

  • (c) In the construction of the Act the enactments of which it is expressed to be a consolidation shall be deemed to be repealed by it, and, except where the Act otherwise provides, it shall be deemed to come into operation simultaneously with this Act:

  • (d) The saving provisions (specific and general) contained in the Act shall be construed in aid of one another, and shall receive large and liberal interpretation, to the intent that the Act may, without gap or omission of any kind, extend and apply to the offices, appointments, things, and circumstances arising or existing under the enactments thereby consolidated as if the same had originated under the Act itself; and in particular, but without limiting its generality, the term acts of authority shall be construed to cover everything the validity of which depends on any of the said enactments.