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Section 8: Construction of references to repealed enactments.

The General Clauses Act, 1897Central Act · Act 10 of 1897

[(1)] Where this Act, or any [Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then references in any other enactment or in any instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so re-enacted.

[(2) [Where before the fifteenth day of August, 1947, any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom repealed and re-enacted], with or without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then reference in any [Central Act] or in any Regulation or instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so re-enacted.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe General Clauses Act, 1897
Section8
Marginal noteConstruction of references to repealed enactments.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it5

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • renumbered, Act 18 of 1919. . Section 8 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 18 of 1919, s. 2 and the First Schedule.
  • substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for Acts of the Governor-General in Council.
  • inserted. . Ins. by s. 2 and the First Schedule, ibid.
  • substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Where any Act of Parliament repeals and re-enacts".

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