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Interpretations.
Citing the Act.
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3. The following words and expressions in both this and the special Act, and any Act incorporated therewith, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)
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Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number only shall include also the singular number:
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Words importing the masculine gender shall include females:
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The word “person” shall include corporation, whether aggregate or sole:
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The word “lands” shall include messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or heritages, of any tenure:
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The word “street” shall include any square, court, or alley highway, lane, road, thoroughfare, or public passage or place, within the limits of the special Act:
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The expression “the gasworks” shall mean the gasworks, and the works connected therewith, by the special Act authorised to be constructed:
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The expression “gas rate” shall include any rent, reward, or payment to be made to the undertakers for a supply of gas:
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The word “month” shall mean calendar month:
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The expression “superior courts”, where the matter submitted to the cognizance of the superior courts arises in England or Ireland, shall mean her Majesty’s superior courts of record at Westminster or Dublin, as the case may require, and where such matter arises in Scotland, it shall mean the Court of Session:
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The word “oath” shall include affirmation in the case of Quakers, and any declaration lawfully substituted for an oath in the case of any other persons allowed by law to make a declaration instead of taking an oath:
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The word “county” shall include riding or other division of a county having a separate commission of the peace; and in Scotland, any division of a county having a separate sheriff; and it shall also include county of a city or county of a town:
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The word “justice” shall mean justice of the peace acting for the place where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such justice arises; and where any matter shall be authorized or required to be done by two justices, the expression “two justices” shall be understood to mean two or more justices met and acting together:
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The word “sheriff” shall mean the sheriff depute of the county in Scotland in which the matter submitted to the cognizance of the sheriff arises, and shall include the substitutes of such sheriff depute:
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The expression “quarter sessions” shall mean quarter sessions as defined in the special Act; and if such expression be not there defined it shall mean the court of general or quarter sessions of the peace which shall be held at the place nearest to the gasworks, or the principal office thereof, for the county or place in which the gasworks are situate, or for some division of such county having a separate commission of the peace.
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And with respect to citing this Act, or any part thereof, be it enacted as follows:
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