SOLOMON ISLANDS
 
THE INTERPRETATION AND
GENERAL PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1986

NO.9 OF 1986

Passed by the National Parliament this third day of July 1986.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

J M Tuhaika 
Clerk to the National Parliament 

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this eighth day of July 1986. 

B Devesi 
Governor-General 

Date of commencement: date of publication in the Gazette.

AN ACT to amend the Interpretation and General Provision Act 1978.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section:

1. Short title.
2. Amendment of section 5 of Act No.20 of 1978.
3. Amendment of section 16.
4. Repeal and replacement of section 24A.
5. Amendment of section 25.
6. Insertion of new sections 32A, 32B and 32C.

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Interpretation and General Provisions (Amendment) Act 1986.

Amendment of section 5 of Act No. 20 of 1978.

2. Section 5 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) is hereby amended by inserting therein the following new subsection –

“(3) Where any Act is divided into Parts, Titles, or other divisions, the fact and particulars of such division shall with or without express mention thereof in any Act be taken or without express mention thereto in any Act be taken notice of in all courts and for all other purposes whatsoever.”.

Amendment of section 16

3. Section 16 of the Principal Act is hereby amended as follows –

(a) by deleting therefrom the meaning assigned to the word “the Gazette” and substituting therefore the following new meaning – 

“means the Solomon Islands Gazette published by order of the Government and includes any supplements thereto and any Gazette Extraordinary so published”; and

(b) by inserting therein in proper alphabetical sequence the following new definitions-

“ “ Local court” means the courts established by the Chief Justice under the Local Courts Act;

“Legal notice” means any announcement of a legal character made by or with the authority of the Government in the Gazette;

“Gazette notice” means any announcement not of a legal character nor subsidiary legislation made by or with the authority of the Government in the Gazette;

“Ordinance” mean laws made for a province by Provincial Assembly under PART IV of the Provincial Government Act, applicable only to a particular province;

“publication means – 

(a) all written and printed matter;

(b) any record, tape, wire, perforated roll, cinematograph film or images or other contrivance by means of which any word or ideas may be mechanically electronically, or electrically produced, reproduce, represented, or conveyed;

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