Western Australian Consolidated Acts

INTERPRETATION ACT 1984

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Application  
   4.      Act binds Crown

   PART II -- General interpretation provisions  

   5.      Terms used in written laws  
   6.      Definitions in a written law, application of  
   7.      Written laws to be construed subject to State’s legislative power  
   8.      Written laws always speaking  
   9.      Parts of speech and grammatical forms  
   10.     Gender and number  
   11.     Sovereign, references to  
   12.     Minister, references to  
   13.     British subject etc., references to  
   13A.    De facto relationship and de facto partner, references to  
   13B.    Standards Association of Australia, references to  
   13CA.   Local government districts, references to  
   13C.    When death of a person occurs  
   13D.    Bankrupt and related expressions, references to  
   14.     References to 2 or more provisions to be inclusive  
   15.     Internal references in written laws, construction of  
   15A.    Reference to paragraph  
   16.     Reference to written law is to written law as amended  
   17.     Disjunctive construction of “or”  
   18.     Purpose or object of written law, use of in interpretation  
   19.     Extrinsic material, use of in interpretation

   PART III -- Commencement and citation  

   20.     Commencement of Acts  
   21.     Time of commencement of written laws  
   22.     Act commencing on proclamation, commencement of certain provisions of  
   23.     Proclamation of commencement of Act, construction of power to make  
   24.     Date of assent, evidence of  
   25.     Some powers in Act may be exercised before it commences  
   26.     Citation of written laws  
   27.     References to commencement of written law if different provisions commence on different days

   PART IV -- Provisions as to enactment and operation of written law  

   28.     Acts deemed public Acts  
   29.     Sections to be substantive enactments  
   30.     Act may be amended in same session  
   31.     Preambles, schedules etc. to form part of written law  
   32.     Headings, marginal notes and footnotes

   PART V -- Repeal of written law  

   33.     Repeal of written law includes repeal of amendments  
   34.     Repeal of repealing enactment, effect of  
   35.     Repeal and substitution of provision, effect of  
   36.     Repealing and re-enacting a provision, effect of  
   37.     General savings on repeal  
   38.     Repeal of Act, effect of on subsidiary legislation  
   39.     Expiry of enactment, effect of

   PART VI -- Subsidiary legislation  

   40.     Governor to make subsidiary legislation  
   41.     Publication and commencement of subsidiary legislation  
   42.     Laying regulations, rules, local laws and by-laws before Parliament, and disallowance  
   43.     Power to make subsidiary legislation, general provisions about  
   44.     Words and expressions in subsidiary legislation, meaning of  
   45.     Fees and charges  
   45A.    Fees for licences, effect of power to prescribe  
   46.     Reference to written law includes reference to subsidiary legislation made under it  
   47.     Acts done under subsidiary legislation deemed done under Act

   PART VII -- Statutory powers and duties  

   48.     Time for exercise of power or performance of duty  
   48A.    Judicial acts and service of process may be done on any day  
   49.     Public officer’s powers and duties may be exercised by acting officer etc.  
   50.     Statutory powers, construction of  
   51.     Power to issue licences and other authorisations is discretionary  
   52.     Power to appoint includes power to remove, suspend, appoint acting officer etc.  
   53.     Appointments may be by name or office  
   54.     Statutory bodies, majority and quorum provisions  
   55.     Errors when exercising certain powers or duties may be corrected  
   56.     “May” imports a discretion, “shall” is imperative  
   57.     Statutory bodies, powers of not affected by vacancies etc.  
   58.     Delegates, performance of functions by  
   59.     Power to delegate, effect of  
   60.     Governor to act with advice of Executive Council

   PART VIII -- Provisions regarding time and distance  

   61.     Time, computation of  
   62.     Months, reckoning of  
   63.     Time for doing acts if no time fixed  
   64.     Power to extend time, construction of  
   65.     Distance, measurement of

   PART IX -- Procedures and penalties  

   66.     Rules of court  
   67.     Offences and proceedings for offences  
   69.     Bodies corporate, application of penal laws to  
   71.     Continuing offences  
   72.     Statutory penalties, construction of

   PART X -- Miscellaneous provisions  

   73.     State deemed established 1 June 1829  
   74.     Prescribed forms, certain deviations do not invalidate  
   75.     Service of documents by post  
   76.     Service of documents generally  
   76A.    Written laws made before Australia Acts, validity of  
   77.     Repeal and saving
           
           
[Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 21 January 2011]
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