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I-21 — Interpretation Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2021-08-03 to present available View Source
    The law shall be considered as always speaking, and where a matter or thing is expressed in the present tense, it shall be applied to the circumstances as they arise, so that effect may be given to the enactment according to its true spirit, intent and meaning.
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    The law shall be considered as always speaking, and where a matter or thing is expressed in the present tense, it shall be applied to the circumstances as they arise, so that effect may be given to the enactment according to its true spirit, intent and meaning.

  2. 2002-12-31 to present View Source

    The law shall be considered as always speaking, and where a matter or thing is expressed in the present tense, it shall be applied to the circumstances as they arise, so that effect may be given to the enactment according to its true spirit, intent and meaning.