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Interpretation Act 1978
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4 Application to statutory instruments
This Act applies, so far as it is applicable:
(a) to and in respect of statutory instruments made under laws to
which this Act applies, and to and in respect of the
interpretation, application and effect of such instruments, as if
those instruments were Acts; and
(b) without limiting its general application:
(i) to and in respect of references to statutory instruments
as if they were references to Acts; and
(ii) to and in respect of references to Acts as if they were
references to such instruments.