Citation

1.

This Statute may be cited as the Interpretation Statute

Application of Acts Interpretation Act

2.

(1)

To the extent that the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply to the Statutes, that Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, apply mutatis mutandis to the Statutes by force of this Statute as if the Statutes were rules, regulations or by-laws within the meaning of section 46 of that Act.

(2)

Nothing in this Statute prejudices or affects the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to the Statutes.

Rules and other instruments under Seal

3.

(1)

Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in rules made under a Statute shall, where the same expression is used in the Statute, have the same meaning as in the Statute.

(2)

This Statute shall apply mutatis mutandis to rules made under Statutes and to other Council Determinations issued under the Seal of the College in the like manner as it applies to Statutes.

Definitions

4.

In any Statute, unless the contrary intention appears -

‘Board of Studies’ shall mean the Board of Studies of the School of the College to which the context refers;

‘Register of Rules’ shall mean the Register referred to in Section 6;

‘Registrar’ shall mean the Academic Registrar of the College;

‘rules’ shall mean rules made under a Statute;

‘student’ shall mean a person (including a person employed by the College) who has been admitted to a course of study or instruction of the College; and

‘the Act’ shall mean the Maritime College Act, 1978.

Reference to authorities, officers, offices, places and publications

5.

In a Statute, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to an authority, officer, office, place of publication by designation shall, if there is an authority, officer, office, place or publication of that designation in or of the College, be read as a reference to that authority, officer, office, place or publication.

Notification and commencement of rules

6.

(1)

Where rules are made under a Statute the Registrar shall enter, in a Register of Rules to be kept by him for the purpose, the title of the rules, the Statute under which the rules were made, the name of the authority or officer by whom the rules were made and the date of entry of the rules in the Register.

(2)

Rules made under a Statute shall come into operation on the date (if any) specified in the rules or on the date on which they are entered in the Register of Rules, whichever is the later.

(3)

The Register of Rules and copies, certified by the Registrar to be true copies of all rules entered in the Register, shall be available for public inspection during business hours at the office of the Registrar.