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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 1

1. For the purposes of this Act

(a)"Act" means an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland;

(b)"enactment" means an Act or a statutory instrument or any provision of an
Act or statutory instrument;

(c)"instrument" includes an Order in Council, order or warrant (other than an
order made or a warrant issued by a court), scheme, rule, regulation, or
bye-law;

(d)"statutory instrument" means an instrument made under an Act;

(e)"statutory document" means any document issued under an Act other than a
statutory instrument or an order of a court;

(f)"statutory provision" means any provision of a statute or instrument made
under a statute (by whatsoever Parliament passed or by whomsoever made) for
the time being in force in Northern Ireland, whether or not relating to a
matter in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to
make laws;

(g)"transferred provision" means

(i)an enactment;

(ii)a statute passed either before the date of the commencement of the Union
with Ireland Act, 1800, by the Parliament of England, the Parliament of Great
Britian or the Parliament of Ireland, or after that date by the Parliament of
the United Kingdom, being a statute extending to Northern Ireland and relating
to a matter in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power
to make laws;

<(iii)an instrument made under or by virtue of any such statute; and


<(iv)any provision of any such statute or instrument.

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