The Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1993 was an
Interpretation Act
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passed by the
Oireachtas in order to promote
gender-inclusive language. It supplemented the
Interpretation Act 1937
Interpretation may refer to:
Culture
* Aesthetic interpretation, an explanation of the meaning of a work of art
* Allegorical interpretation, an approach that assumes a text should not be interpreted literally
* Dramatic Interpretation, an event ...
by providing that (as well as the pre-existing rule that the masculine includes feminine) the feminine gender would also be taken to include the masculine.
The Act was repealed and re-enacted by the Interpretation Act 2005. Section 18(b)(ii) of that Act provides, "In an Act passed on or after 22 December 1993, and in a
statutory instrument
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United Kingdom
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National government
Statutory instrumen ...
made after that date, a word importing the feminine gender shall be read as also importing the masculine gender".
References
1993 in Irish law
Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1990s
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