Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- "local authority" means a local council within the meaning of the Local Governments Act;
"scheduled corporation" means a corporation mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act.
For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be deemed to be under a disability while he or she is an infant or suffers from mental illness.
For the purposes of subsection (2), but without prejudice to the generality of that subsection, a person shall be conclusively presumed to be suffering from mental illness while he or she is detained in pursuance of any enactment authorising the detention of persons suffering from mental illness or criminal lunatics.
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This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- "scheduled corporation" means a corporation mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act.
Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.
Citing judgments are indexed, but no express interpretive proposition has yet passed the passage-verification threshold. Open Judicial treatment for the citing passages.
No section-specific note is recorded. Act-level consolidation history:
- [Amended by Civil Procedure and Limitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Amendment of Schedule 3) Order, 2002 (Statutory Instrument 49 of 2002) on 19 July 2002]
- [Amended by Civil Procedure and Limitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Amendment of Third Schedule) Order, 2010 (Statutory Instrument 35 of 2010) on 17 September 2010]
- [Amended by Civil Procedure and Limitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Amendment of Third Schedule) Order, 2011 (Statutory Instrument 34 of 2011) on 8 July 2011]
- [Amended by Civil Procedure and Limitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Amendment of Third Schedule) Order, 2012 (Statutory Instrument 42 of 2012) on 22 June 2012]
Act-level history only · Do not infer that every amendment changed this section