Singapore legislation

Clause 38

Reprint of Acts

(1)

The Attorney-General may, with the authority of the President, cause to be printed reprints of Acts; and any such reprints may contain amendments as the Attorney-General is authorised to make by subsection (2).

(2)

The Attorney-General, in preparing any reprint, shall have the following powers: —

(a)

to incorporate in or omit from the reprint, as the case may be, all matters required to be added to, omitted from or substituted for any provisions of the Act as a result of any amendments made to that Act by any other Act;

(b)

to delete any words, expressions, nomenclature or other provisions in any written law which have expired or become obsolete, including references to repealed Acts, and to substitute therefor, where necessary, appropriate words, expressions, nomenclature or provisions or references to the appropriate Act;

(c)

to renumber the sections in any Act as a result of any amendment made thereto by any other Act;

(d)

to correct grammatical, typographical and similar mistakes in the Act and to make verbal additions, omissions or alterations not affecting the meaning of any Act;

(e)

to make such alterations as may be necessary to bring any Act into conformity with Singapore becoming an independent nation, including such formal alterations as to names, localities, departments, offices and titles;

(f)

to correct cross-references; and

(g)

to supply or alter tables of contents, marginal notes and Part and Chapter headings.

(3)

In this section unless the context otherwise requires —

(a)

“Act” includes —

(i)

a law as originally passed or made, or where such law has been lawfully reprinted, the latest official printed copy of such law;

(ii)

any Ordinance or Act of Malaysia extended to have application in Singapore, by means of an Order made under the provisions of the Malaysia Act (Act 26 of 1963) or by an Act of the Parliament of Malaysia, during the period 16th day of September 1963, to the 8th day of August, 1965;

(iii)

any Act of the Parliament of Malaysia enacted during the period 16th day of September 1963, to the 8th day of August, 1965, to have application in Singapore;

(iv)

the Constitution;

(v)

any Order made under the provisions of the Constitution, the Republic of Singapore Independence Act, 1965 (Act .....of 1965), and section 74 of the Malaysia Act; and

(vi)

any subsidiary legislation;

(b)

“section” includes subsection, paragraph and sub-paragraph and, in the case of subsidiary legislation, section, subsection, article, paragraph and sub-paragraph.

(4)

Any reprint of any Act purporting to have been printed pursuant to this Act shall be deemed to be the authentic text of that Act in force on such date as may be specified in the reprint and shall for the purposes of subsection (6) be the official printed copy of such Act.

(5)

A reference in an Act to the number of a section in any reprinted Act, the sections of which have been renumbered, shall mean a reference to the renumbered section of such reprinted Act.

(6)

A reference in any Act to the number of a line of any section of any other Act shall mean such line in the latest official printed copy of such other Act at the time of the passing of the Act containing such reference.

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