Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 - SECT 36A

Examples

36A. Examples



(1) If an Act or subordinate instrument includes at the foot of a provision
under the heading "Example" or "Examples" an example of the operation of the
provision, the example-

   (a)  is not exhaustive; and

   (b)  may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision.

(2) This section applies to an example of a kind referred to in subsection (1)
included in an Act or subordinate instrument if-

   (a)  the Act is passed, or the subordinate instrument is made, on or after
        1 January 2001; or

   (b)  the example is inserted into an Act passed, or subordinate instrument
        made, before 1 January 2001 by an Act passed, or subordinate
        instrument made, on or after that date.