When you read secondary legislation or other instruments, you will see words and expressions used in them. These words and expressions have the same meaning as they do in the legislation that allows them to be made. This means that if a word or expression is used in a certain way in the main legislation, it will be used in the same way in the secondary legislation or instrument, even if the meaning of the word or expression changes over time, and you can find more information by looking at the legislation that it is based on.
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19: Words in singular include plural and vice versa, or
"Singular words can mean one or many things, and plural words can mean one thing too."
21: Anything done under secondary legislation or other instrument is also done under Act, or
"Doing something under one law also means you're doing it under the main law that controls it."
A word or an expression used in secondary legislation, or in any instrument, has the same meaning as it has, from time to time, in the legislation under which the secondary legislation or instrument is made.
