TONGA

INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT) ACT

No. 16 of 1996

I assent,

TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV,
29th November, 1995.

AN ACT
TO AMEND THE INTERPRETATION ACT

[6th November, 1995]

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1995.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Cap. 1), as amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following as subsection (11);

"(11) The style 'Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries' wherever it appears in any Act (including this Act) or in any official Government writing, is omitted and the style 'Minister of Agriculture and Forests' inserted in its stead; and a reference in that Act or official Government writing to 'Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries' shall be read and construed as a reference to 'Minister of Agriculture and Forests'."

Passed by the Legislative Assembly this 6th day of November, 1995.

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