4Interpretation

4 Interpretation

[Section 4 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ][Section 4 Amended by No. 47 of 1981, s. 2 ][Section 4 Amended by No. 63 of 1963, s. 2 and Sched. 2 ][Section 4 Amended by No. 63 of 1963, s. 117 and Sched. 6 ][Section 4 Amended by No. 55 of 1976, s. 2 ]**[Section 4 Amended by No. 62 of 1996, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ][Section 4 Amended by No. 74 of 1999, Sched. 2, Applied:01 Jan 2000] In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

company includes any banking or mercantile or trading corporation, however created, and any company registered, incorporated, or constituted under or pursuant to any Act;

contingent right, as applied to land, includes a contingent or executory interest, a possibility coupled with an interest, whether the object of the gift or limitation of the interest, or possibility, is or is not ascertained, also a right of entry, whether immediate or future, and whether vested or contingent;

convey and conveyance, applied to any person, include the execution by that person of every necessary or suitable assurance for conveying, assigning, appointing, surrendering, or otherwise transferring or disposing of any property whereof he is seised or possessed, or wherein he is entitled to a contingent right, either for his whole estate or for any less estate, together with the performance of all formalities required by law for the validity of the conveyance;

the Court means the Supreme Court or a judge;

devisee includes the heir of a devisee and the devisee of an heir, and any person who may claim right by devolution of title of a similar description;

[Section 4 Amended by No. 74 of 1999, Sched. 2, Applied:01 Jan 2000] financial institution means any authorised deposit-taking institution, or the manager of any authorised deposit-taking institution, authorised under this Act to receive fixed deposits from trustees;

instrument includes Act;