12 & 13 Geo. 2
Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949
Ch. 33
- ambiguities, removing doubts, bringing obsolete provisions into conformity with modern practice, or removing unnecessary provisions or anomalies which are not of substantial importance, and amendments designed to facilitate improvement in the form or manner in which the law is stated, and includes any transitional provisions which may be necessary in consequence of such amendments;
- “the Gazette” means the London Gazette and, in relation to a memorandum preparatory to a Bill intended to extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland, includes the Edinburgh Gazette or Belfast Gazette, as the case may be, so, however, that, in relation to a memorandum preparatory to a Bill intended to extend only to Scotland, the said expression means the Edinburgh Gazette.
Short title and application to Scotland. 3.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949.
(2) In relation to any Bill intended to extend only to Scotland this Act shall have effect as if for the reference to the Lord Chancellor in subsection (1) of section one thereof there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State.
Printed by HENRY GEORGE GORDON WELCH, C.B.E., Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office and King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
