SAMOA

Acts Interpretation Amendment
1998, No. 37

Arrangement of Provisions

1. Short title and commencement
2. Definition of "Gazette" and "Samoa Gazette"

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AN ACT to amend the Acts Interpretation Act 1974.
[28 August 1998]

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament assembled as follows:-

1. Short title and commencement-(1) This Act may be cited as the Acts Interpretation Amendment Act 1998 and shall be read with and form part of the Acts Interpretation Act 1974 (the principal Act).

(2) This Act shall come into force on the date that it is assented to by the Head of State and shall be deemed for all purposes to apply from the commencement date of the principal Act, and to that extent it shall have retrospective effect.

2. Definition of "Gazette" and "Samoa Gazette" - Section 4 of the principal Act is amended as follows -

(a) By adding to the definition of "Gazette" and "Samoa Gazette" the words "and shall include any publication of the Savali"; and

(b) By adding subsection (2) as follows:

"(2) Where any provision of any Act makes reference to the "Gazette", or the "Samoa Gazette" or the "Gazette and the Savali" or words to that effect, then such reference shall be deemed to mean the Gazette or the Savali and the publication of any notice in either the Gazette or the Savali shall, for all purposes, be sufficient publication of the notice."

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