INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 46 Miscellaneous definitions.

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 46

Miscellaneous definitions.

46.(1) In an enactment the expression

"commencement" when used with reference to any statutory provision shall mean
the time at which that provision comes into operation;

"contravention" shall include in relation to any statutory provision, a
failure to comply with that provision;

"Land Clauses Acts" shall mean the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860, the Railways Act
(Ireland), 1851, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1860, the Railways Act (Ireland),
1864, ..., the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919,
section two of the Repeal of Unnecessary Laws Act (Northern Ireland), 1953,
and every statutory provision for the time being in force amending those
provisions or any of them;

"ordnance map" shall mean a map made under the powers conferred by the Survey
(Ireland) Acts, 1825 to 1870;

"owner" in relation to any land shall include any person who under the Lands
Clauses Acts would have power to sell and convey that land to the promoters of
an undertaking;

"Republic of Ireland" shall mean the territory which, in accordance with the
provisions of the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act, 1922, and the Irish Free
State Constitution Act, 1922 (Session 2), was required to be styled and known
as the Irish Free State;

"signature" and "signed" shall include and apply to the making of a mark;

"Valuation Acts" shall mean the transferred provisions relating to the
valuation of rateable property in Northern Ireland;

"will" shall include codicil;

"writing", "written" or any term of like import shall include words
typewritten, printed, painted, engraved, lithographed, photographed or
represented or reproduced by any mode of representing or reproducing words in
a visible form.

(2) In an enactment passed or made after the commencement of this Act the
expression

"access" shall include ingress, egress and regress;

"act" where used in reference to an offence or civil wrong shall include a
series of acts, and words so used which refer to acts done shall extend to
omissions;

"arbitrator" when used in relation to any matter referred to arbitration under
and in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act (Northern
Ireland), 1937, shall include an umpire appointed under those provisions;

"assets" shall include property or rights of any kind;

"barrister-at-law" shall mean any person admitted or entitled to practise as a
member of the Bar of Northern Ireland;

"constitutional laws of Northern Ireland" shall mean the
Government of Ireland Act, 1920, and the statutory provisions amending or
extending it or otherwise relating to or affecting the legislative powers of
Parliament;

"costs" shall include fees, charges, disbursements, expenses or remuneration;

"fault" shall mean wrongful act or default;

"functions" shall include jurisdictions, powers and duties;

"goods" shall mean all kinds of movable property including animals;

"individual" shall mean a natural person and shall not include a corporation;

"movable property" shall mean property of every description (including growing
crops) except immovable property;

"registry of deeds" shall mean the registry maintained in Northern Ireland
under the Registration of Deeds Acts;

["Registration of Deeds Acts" shall mean the Registration of Deeds Act
(Northern Ireland) 1970 and every statutory provision for the time being in
force amending that Act or otherwise relating to the registry of deeds, or to
the registration of deeds, orders or other instruments or documents in such
registry;]

"statute of limitation" shall mean any statutory provision in force in
Northern Ireland prescribing a period within which any civil proceeding to
which such provision relates is required to be brought, but shall not include
a provision prescribing a period within which any criminal proceedings
(including proceedings to recover any penalty imposed as a punishment for a
criminal offence) is to be brought.

Citation of statutory provisions, etc.

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 46