1 Interpretation
| Author | Ralph Hone |
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CHAPTER I.
INTERPRETATION.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
SECTION.
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SHORT TITLE.
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INTERPRETATION.
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DEFINITION OF CITY OF NASSAU.
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THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE.
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PAST OR FUTURE ACTS.
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REFERENCES TO THE SOVEREIGN.
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GENDER AND NUMBER.
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REFERENCES TO WRITING.
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NATURE OF ACT.
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CONSTRUCTION OF SCHEDULES AND TABLES.
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MEANING OF ANY REFERENCE IN ANY ACT TO THE NUMBER OF A LINE.
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CITATION OF ACTS.
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EFFECT OF REPEAL AND RE-ENACTMENT WITH OR WITHOUT MODIFICATION.
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EFFECT OF REPEAL.
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WHEN ACTS SHALL COME INTO OPERATION.
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ACTS MAY BE ALTERED, ETC., IN THE SAME SESSION.
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REPRINTING OF ACTS.
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CONTINUING SESSION.
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POWER TO MAKE RULES DEEMED TO INCLUDE POWER TO SUSPEND, MODIFY OR CANCEL.
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EXISTING RULES SHALL REMAIN IN FORCE AFTER THE REPEAL OF AN ACT UNTIL OTHERS HAVE BEEN MADE.
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WHEN RULES SHALL COME INTO OPERATION.
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INTERPRETATION OF RULES.
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POWER TO MAKE RULES INCLUDES POWER TO IMPOSE PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES.
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SIGNIFICATION OF ORDERS, ETC., OF 'GOVERNOR.
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SUMMARY PROCEDURE.
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IMPOSITION OF A PENALTY NOT TO BAR CIVIL ACTION.
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PAYMENT OF MOIETY OF PENALTY BY DIRECTION OF GOVERNOR.
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FINES, PENALTIES AND TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT.
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FORMS.
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OFFICER TO INCLUDE ACTING OFFICER.
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QUALIFICATION FOR HOLDING OFFICE NOT TO APPLY TO ACTING APPOINTMENTS.
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AUTHORITY TO APPOINT SHALL INCLUDE POWER TO FILL TEMPORARY VACANCIES.
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AUTHORITY TO APPOINT SHALL INCLUDE POWER TO REMOVE, RE-APPOINT OR REINSTATE.
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CHANGE IN TITLE OF PUBLIC OFFICE.
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MINISTER'S SEAL.
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CONFERRED POWERS MAY BE EXERCISED AND IMPOSED DUTIES SHALL BE PERFORMED AS OCCASION REQUIRES.
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CONSTRUCTION OF ENABLING WORDS.
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IMPERIAL ACTS TO BE READ WITH NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS.
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PUBLIC OFFICER NOT APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR DEEMED TO BE SERVANT OF APPOINTOR.
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APPOINTMENTS TO PUBLIC BOARDS, ETC.
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POWERS OF PUBLIC BOARDS, ETC., TO REGULATE PROCEDURE.
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MEMBERS OF PUBLIC BOARDS, ETC., TO INCUR NO PERSONAL LIABILITY.
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DECLARATION OF PECUNIARY INTEREST.
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WHEN INTERPRETATIONS AND PROVISIONS SHALL NOT APPLY.
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COLLECTIVE TITLES.
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EFFECT OF REPEAL OF ACTS GIVING SHORT TITLES.
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COMPUTATION OF TIME.
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PROVISIONS WHEN NO TIME PRESCRIBED.
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EXERCISE OF STATUTORY POWER BETWEEN PASSING AND COMMENCEMENT OF ACT.
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RIGHTS OF CROWN.
CHAPTER 1.
INTERPRETATION.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF ACTS 5 o 1911.
3 of 1895.
AND FOR SHORTENING THE LANGUAGE USED 39 of 1904.
THEREIN. 13 of 1905.
1 of 1912.
3 of 1932.
[13th July 1911.1 6 of 1934.
6 of 1935.
2 of 1936.
33 of 1940.
7 of 1952.
1 of 1957.
14 of 1957.
23 of 1957.
39 of 1958.
5 of 1960.
33 of 1963.
43 of 1964.
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This Act may be cited as The Interpretation Act.
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-(1) In this Act and in any Act the following expressions shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say: 'Act' means Act of Assembly or Legislature;
'affidavit' includes affirmation and declaration;
'Chief Justice' means the Chief Justice of the Colony;
'Colony' means the Bahama Islands, including the inland and territorial waters thereof, and the area of the continental shelf that lies beneath the sea contiguous to the coasts thereof;
'commencement', when used with reference to an Act, means the time at which the Act comes into operation;
'commissioner' means a commissioner appointed under The Out Islands Administration Act, or any Act passed in amendment thereof, or substitution therefor;
'Comptroller' means the Comptroller of Customs;
'Constitution' means the Constitution of the Bahama Islands for the time being in force;
'Consular employee' means any person employed for the performance of executive administrative clerical technical or professional duties, or Short title.
Interpretation.
1 of 1957, s. 6.
6 of 1935, s. 2.
Ch. 11.
33 of 1963, s. 2.
7 of 1952, s. 2.
as consular guard, messenger or driver of a vehicle, at a consulate of a state with which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland may have concluded a consular convention, but does not include any person so employed on domestic duties;
7 of 1952, s. 2.
14 of 1957, s. 3.
39 of 1958, s. 2.
6 of 1935, s. 2.
43 of 1964, Third Sch.
'Consular officer' means any person who is granted an exequatur or provisional or other authorisation by the appropriate authority in the Colony as the representative of a state with which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland may have concluded a consular convention;
'Crown Agents' means The Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations;
'diplomatic passport' means a passport issued by the Secretary of State to ambassadors, ministers, officers of the Foreign Service and any other persons having diplomatic status, such as military and naval attaches, and to members of their immediate family who reside with them;
'financial year' means the twelve months ending the thirty-first day of December in any year;
'folio' means seventy-two words;
'Governor' means the officer for the time being administering the Government of the Colony, and includes a Deputy Governor in the exercise of the particular powers and authorities specified and limited by the Instrument appointing such Deputy Governor issfied under the Constitution;
'Island of New Providence' or ' New Providence' includes the island of New Providence, Paradise Island and all other adjacent islands and cays within ten miles of the island of New Providence;
'Judge' means a Judge of the Supreme Court;
'Judicial Service Commission' means the Judicial Service Commission constituted by section 98 of the Constitution;
'land' includes land of any tenure, and tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal,
and houses and other buildings, also an undivided share in land;
'Legislature' means the Governor, the Senate and the House of Assembly acting together;
'magistrate' means a magistrate exercising the jurisdiction conferred by The Magistrates Act or any Act passed in amendment thereof or substitution therefor;
'Minister' means a person appointed as a Minister by the Governor under the Constitution;
'month' means calendar month;
'Nassau Prison'-see Prison in Nassau.
'New Providence'-see Island of New Providence.
'oath' includes affirmation and declaration;
'Out Island' means any island in the Colony other than that of New Providence;
'peace officer' means a constable or any member of the police force and any other person lawfully authorised to discharge police duties;
'person' includes any body of persons corporate or unincorporate;
'Police Service Commission' means the Police Service Commission constituted by section 100 of the Constitution;
'premises' means an3 lot, plot or piece of land, whether or not covered by water, owned or occupied by any person, and includes any house or building situate thereon;
'prescribed' means prescribed by rules;
'Prison in Nassau' means the several buildings situated on a plot of land covering eighty acres more or less, adjoining the Industrial School and extending therefrom in a southerly direction along the Fox Hill Road south, to its junction with the Yamacraw Hill Road, in the Island of New Providence, which were declared to be prisons by a proclamation made by the Governor on the thirty-first day of March 1952, under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 4 of The Prisons Act and all other buildings which may be erected on the said plot of land and declared to be 33 of 1962, s. 2.
Ch. 36.
33 of 1963, s. 2.
23 of 1957, s. 2.
43 of 1964, Third Schd.
43 of 1964, Third Schd.
23 of 1957, s. 2.
Ch. 12.
prisons under the provisions of The Prisons Act or any Act pased in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor;
'Proclamation' means a Proclamation Governor under the Pulic Seal;
'Public Seal' means the Public Seal Colony;
of the of the 43 of 1964, Third Schd.
43 of 1964, Third Schd.
43 of 1964, Third Schd.
2 of 1936, s. 2.
43 of 1964, Third Schd.
Ch. 35.
5 of 1960, s...
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