ERRATUM.

Page 289.-Instead of words "Repealed, &c., by 53 V., c. 37, s. 27, read" Proviso added by 53 V., &c., to section as printed herewith :-"

&c., not to be invalid for

Proviso.

Convictions, 87. No conviction or order made by any justice of the peace and no warrant for enforcing the same, shall, on being informalities. removed by certiorari be held invalid for any irregularity, informality or insufficiency therein, provided that the court or judge before which or whom the question is raised is, upon perusal of the depositions, satisfied that an offence of the nature described in the conviction, order or warrant, has been committed, over which such justice has jurisdiction, and that the punishment imposed is not in excess of that which might have been lawfully imposed for the said offence; and any statement which, under this Act or otherwise, would be sufficient if contained in a conviction, shall also be sufficient if contained in an information, summons, order or warrant. 49 V., c. 49, s. 2.

THE

REVISED STATUTES

OF

CANADA.

CHAPTER 1.

An Act respecting the Form and Interpretation of A.D. 1886. Statutes.

HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as

31 V., c. 1, s. 16.

"The Interpretation Act." Short title.

APPLICATION.

Acts now or

2. This Act, and every provision thereof, shall extend and This Act to apply to every Act of the Parliament of Canada, now or here- apply to all after passed except in so far as the provision is inconsistent hereafter with the intent and object of such Act, or the interpretation passed. which such provision would give to any word, expression or clause is inconsistent with the context,-and except in so far as any provision hereof is in any such Act declared not applicable thereto; and the omission in any Act of a declaration that "The Interpretation Act" applies thereto, shall not be construed to prevent its so applying, although such express declaration is inserted in some other Act or Acts of the same session. 31 V., c. 1, s. 3;-31 V, c. 28.