Interpretation Act 1965 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · General Provisions Regarding Written Law
15. References to amended and re-enacted provisions
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written law
“written law” means the Constitution and all previous Constitutions having application to Singapore and all Acts, Ordinances and enactments by whatever name called and subsidiary legislation made thereunder for the time being in force in Singapore;
Where any written law repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provision of a former written law, then, unless the contrary intention appears —
any reference in any other written law to the provision so repealed is to be construed as a reference to the provision so re‑enacted;
insofar as any subsidiary legislation made or other thing done under the provision so repealed, or having effect as if so made or done, could have been made or done under the provision so re‑enacted, it has effect as if made or done under that provision.