Unit 10 of Legal Language including Legal Writing and General English (syllabus: Module 10). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- What is a statute, and what turns on the class it belongs to?
- How do you identify the parts of an Act from the printed extract?
- From what date does a statute operate, and when may it reach backwards?
- What survives the repeal of an Act?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- General Clauses Act 1897, s. 3(19)
- Protection of Human Rights Act 1993, s. 1(3)
- General Clauses Act 1897, s. 5
- General Clauses Act 1897, s. 6
Leading cases
- H.V. Kamath v Ahmad Ishaque (SC
- Hitendra Vishnu Thakur v State of Maharashtra (SC
- State of Punjab v Mohar Singh