Sec. 1 STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1947

Definitions.

Definitions.

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1.—(1) In this Act—

the word “statute” means any statute being—

(a) a pre-union Irish statute, or

(b) a British statute, or

(c) a Saorstát Éireann statute, or

(d) an Act of the Oireachtas (whether passed before or after this Act);

the expression “statutory instrument” means an order, regulation, rule, scheme or bye-law made in exercise of a power conferred by statute.

(2) References in this Act to a statute shall, if that statute has been adapted by or under any enactment, be construed as references to that statute as so adapted.

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1947 Statutory instruments to which this Act primarily applies. →