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1978 CHAPTER 30 An Act to consolidate the Interpretation Act 1889 and certain other enactments relating to the construction and operation of Acts of Parliament and other instruments, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.

by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— General provisions as to enactment and operation

1. Every section of an Act takes effect as a substantive enactment without introductory words.

2. Any Act may be amended or repealed in the Session of Parliament in which it is passed.

3. Every Act is a public Act to be judicially noticed as such, unless the contrary is expressly provided by the Act.

4. An Act or provision of an Act comes into force—
 * (a) where provision is made for it to come into force on a particular day, at the beginning of that day;
 * (b) where no provision is made for its coming into force, at the beginning of the day on which the Act receives the Royal Assent.

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