New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INTERPRETATION ACT 1987 - SECT 8

8 Gender and number

In any Act or instrument--

(a) a word or expression that indicates one or more particular genders shall be taken to indicate every other gender,

(b) a reference to a word or expression in the singular form includes a reference to the word or expression in the plural form,

(c) a reference to a word or expression in the plural form includes a reference to the word or expression in the singular form,

(d) a reference to a person does not exclude a reference to a corporation merely because elsewhere in the Act or instrument there is particular reference to a corporation (in whatever terms expressed), and

(e) a reference to a person does not exclude a reference to an individual merely because elsewhere in the Act or instrument there is particular reference to an individual (in whatever terms expressed).