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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 11

References in enactments.

11.(1) A reference in an enactment to any statutory provision shall be
construed as a reference to that provision as for the time being amended by or
under any other statutory provision, including the enactment in which the
reference is made.

(2) A reference in an enactment to any statute passed either before the date
of the commencement of the Union with Ireland Act, 1800, by the Irish
Parliament or the Parliament of England or the Parliament of Great Britain or
on or after that date by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any
instrument made under or by virtue of any such statute, shall, except as
provided in sub-section (3), be construed as a reference to that statute or
instrument as it applies for the time being in Northern Ireland.

(3) Sub-section (2) shall not apply where the reference

(a)is to a statute or instrument which does not apply in Northern Ireland; or

(b)relates to any act or thing done in any other part of the United Kingdom
under and for the purposes of a statute or instrument as it applies in that
part of the United Kingdom.

(4) A reference in an enactment by number or letter to a Part, section,
sub-section, paragraph, sub-paragraph or other division of another enactment
or statutory provision shall be construed as a reference to such Part,
section, sub-section, paragraph, sub-paragraph or other division of such other
enactment or provision as printed by authority of law.

(5) A reference in an enactment by number or letter to two or more Parts,
divisions, sections, sub-sections, paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, schedules,
instruments or forms shall be read as including the number or letter first
mentioned and the number or letter last mentioned.

(6) Where in an enactment reference is made to a Part, division, section,
schedule or form without anything in the context to indicate that a reference
to a Part, division, section, schedule or form of some other enactment or
statutory provision is intended, the reference shall be construed as a
reference to a Part, division, section, schedule or form of the enactment in
which the reference is made.

(7) Where in a section of an enactment reference is made to a sub-section,
paragraph, sub-paragraph or other division without anything in the context to
indicate that a reference to a sub-section, paragraph, sub-paragraph or other
division of some other section or provision is intended, the reference shall
be construed as a reference to a sub-section, paragraph, sub-paragraph or
other division of the section in which the reference is made.

(8) Where in a schedule or Part of a schedule to an enactment reference is
made to a paragraph, sub-paragraph or other division without anything in the
context to indicate that a reference to a paragraph, sub-paragraph or other
division of some other provision is intended, the reference shall be construed
as a reference to the paragraph, sub-paragraph or other division of the
schedule or the Part of the schedule in which the reference is made.

(9) Where in an enactment reference is made to a statutory instrument or
statutory document, without anything in the context to indicate that a
reference to a statutory instrument or statutory document made under some
other enactment or statutory provision is intended, the reference shall be
construed as a reference to a statutory instrument or statutory document, as
the case may be, made under the enactment in which the reference is made.

(10) A reference in an enactment to any power exercisable,
statutory instrument or statutory document made, or issued or act or thing
done under a statutory provision shall include a reference to a power
exercisable, a statutory instrument or statutory document made, or issued or
act or thing done by virtue of that provision or of any statutory instrument
or statutory document made or issued under or by virtue of that provision.

(11) The expression "herein" when used in a section or other division of an
enactment passed or made after the commencement of this Act shall relate to
the whole enactment and not to that section or division only.

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