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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 47

47.(1) Any Act passed after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and
forty-three, may be cited by reference to the calendar year in which it was
passed and its chapter in that year.

(2) Without prejudice to sub-section (1), any statutory provision may be cited
in any manner in which it could have been cited before the commencement of
this Act.

(3) A reference in an enactment to a statutory provision shall be construed as
referring, in relation to statutes included in any revised edition of the
statutes purporting to be printed by authority, to that edition, and in
relation to statutes not so included, and passed before the reign of King
George the First, to the edition prepared under the direction of the Record
Commission, and, in relation to other statutes, to copies of the statutes
purporting to be printed under the superintendence or authority of Her
Majesty's Stationery Office.

(4) In an enactment every description of or citation from any
statutory provision or from any document shall be construed as including the
word, sub-section, section, or other portion mentioned or referred to as
forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the
description or citation or as being the point from which or to which such
portion extends.

Repeals, etc.

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