Interpretation Act 1978
c. 3013
Sch. 2
5. The following definitions shall be treated as included in Schedule 1 for the purposes specified in this paragraph—
- (a) in any Act passed before 1st April 1974, a reference to England includes Berwick upon Tweed and Monmouthshire and, in the case of an Act passed before the 1967 c. 66.Welsh Language Act 1967, Wales;
- (b) in any Act passed before the commencement of this Act and after the year 1850, “land” includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses and buildings of any tenure;
- (c) in any Act passed before the commencement of the 1975 c. 21.Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975, “the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts” means Part II of that Act.
PART II
Subordinate Legislation
6. Sections 4(a), 9 and 19(1), and so much of Schedule 1 as defines the following expressions, namely—
- British subject and Commonwealth citizen;
- England;
- Local land charges register and appropriate local land charges register;
- Police area (and related expressions) in relation to Scotland;
- United Kingdom;
- Wales,
apply to subordinate legislation made at any time before the commencement of this Act as they apply to Acts passed at that time.
7. The definition in Schedule 1 of “county court”, in relation to England and Wales, applies to Orders in Council made after the year 1846.
