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The Interpretation (Amendment) Act, 1981 Short title.

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Preamble

ACTS Supple m ent to the Sierra I. eone Gazztte Vol. CXII. No. 45 dated 13h A ugu st, 1981 SiGNED this 10:h day of August, 1981. SIAKA STEVENS, President. (LS No. 10 1981 Sierra Leone The Interpretation (Amendment) Act, 1981 Short title. [14th June, 1978] Dateof commence BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this ment. present Parliament assembled as follows:

Section 1

This Act shall be deemed to have comeinto operation on Commencement.the 14th day of June, 1978. Amend. ment of Sation 4 dAct No. Saf 1971. No. 10 Interpretation (Amendment) 1981

Section 2

Section 4 of the Interpretation Act, 1971 is hereby amended by repealing and replacing the definition of the term "Law Oficer" by the following new definition: <Law Officer""includes the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Solicitor-General, the Director of Public Prosccutions, the First Parliamentary Counsel, the Head of the Civil and Commercial Division, and every State Counsel and Parliamentary Counsel; " Passed in Parliament this 23rd day of July, in the year of cur Lord one thousandnine hundred and eighty-one. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk Parliamen . B THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk Prliamen.

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