ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 11B Amending Act to be construed with amended Act

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 11B

  (1)   Every Act amending another Act must be construed with the other Act as part of the other Act.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an Act (the amending Act ) amends another Act (the principal Act ); and

  (b)   a provision (the non - amending provision ) of the amending Act does not amend the principal Act, but relates to an amendment of the principal Act made by another provision of the amending Act; and

  (c)   a term is used in the non - amending provision that has a particular meaning in the principal Act or in a provision of the principal Act amended or included by the amending Act;

then the term has that meaning in the non - amending provision.

Note:   Subsection   (2) covers, for example, application, transitional and saving items in a Schedule to an amending Act that relate to amendments of a principal Act made by other items in the Schedule.

  (3)   Subsection   (2) does not limit subsection   (1).