Intrinsic Aids Mindmap
- Created by: Alice Tunley
- Created on: 12-05-13 18:30
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- Intrinsic Aids
- Found within an act of parliament
- Judge may refer to long and short title of an Act
- RCN V DHSS where the long title of the Abortion Act 1967 was referred to
- A preamble may be found in older statutes, this set out the purpose of the Act
- Newer acts now include an objectives section.
- This is seen in the climate change and sustainable energy
- Newer acts now include an objectives section.
- Schedules may also help judges and are found as an addition tothe main body of the act
- This can help make sense of an Act
- Hunting Act 2004
- This can help make sense of an Act
- Some modern acts now include a definitions section
- Law Reform Act 1996
- A judge may look at punctuation as it can effect the meaning of words
- Hanlon v Law society 1981
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