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POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) ACT 1838 - SECT 124

Interpretation of terms.

124. The words and expressions herein-after mentioned which in their ordinary
use have a more confined or different meaning, shall in the construction of
this Act, except where the context excludes such construction, be interpreted
as follows: every word importing the singular number or the masculine gender
only shall be understood to include and shall be applied to several persons,
matters, or things, as well as one person, matter, or thing, and females as
well as males respectively; the word "order" shall include general rules; the
words "general rule" shall be construed to mean any order relating to the
execution of this Act which shall at the time of issuing the same be addressed
by the commissioners to more than one union or to more institutions or objects
than one, when such institutions or objects shall not be contained in any one
union, ...; the word "rent" shall include every reservation or sum or value
rendered either in money or otherwise by any tenant or under any contract for
or in respect of the occupation, use, or enjoyment of any hereditaments,
corporeal or incorporeal, and also every fee-farm rent and rent-seck and
rent-charge; ... the words "justice" or "justices of the peace" shall, when
any justice or justices is or are empowered to do any magisterial or judicial
act, either singly or at petty sessions, include and extend to any justice of
the peace or any magistrate of a county, county of a city, or county of a
town, or of any city or town corporate, or any assistant barrister.

S.125 rep. by SLR 1874 (No. 2)

First Schedule rep. by SLR 1980. Second and Third Schedules rep. by SLR 1874
(No. 2)





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