Local and Personal Acts. (English) See ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. Provisions in local and personal Acts givings double and treble costs, and allowing the genera lissue to be pleaded, and special matter to be given in evidence, are repealed by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97, ss. 1, 3. The same Act provides for uniformity of notice of action in such actions-one month in all cases-and equalizes the periods of limitation under such Acts. See LIMITATION, STATUTES OF. By the Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 9, re-enacting 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, every statute made after 1850 is to be taken to be a public one, and judicially noticed as such, unless the contrary be expressly declared. Interpretation Act, 1888, s. 9.
Some Public and General Acts contain provisions for the alteration by Regulations, Statutory or Provisional Order, or otherwise, of local Acts in conformity with the general enactment, e.g., (English) Land Drainage, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo.5, c. 44); see s. 41; London Traffic Act, 1924; (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, ss. 66 and 68; (English) Public Health Acts, etc.
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