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Definition. 
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1.—In this Act “statute”, except in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 3, means— 
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(a) an Act of the Oireachtas, 
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(b) an Act of the Oireachtas of Saorstát Éireann, 
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(c) an Act of the Parliament of the former United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or 
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(d) an Act of a Parliament sitting in Ireland at any time before the coming into force of the Union with Ireland Act, 1800. 
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