Updated to 23 October 2025
			(Act No. 10 of 2025 and S.I. No. 506 of 2025)
			
	
		
		
		Contents
		
		
		Commencement
		
            
            
                | Section | 
                Commencement/Effective Date 
                    Where the commencement and effective dates differ, the effective date is shown below. 
                 | 
                Commencement Information | 
            
            
			
			
					| 
						Whole Act | 
					
						7 August 1941 | 
					Commenced on enactment | 
				
			
		
		
		Amendments and other effects
		
			
				
					| How Affected | 
					Affecting Provision | 
					
			
			
			
					| 
						Repealed with transitional provisions and saver | 
					33/2022, ss. 1(5), 5(1), (2), 6(a)(i) | 
					
			
					| 
						Applic. rstrct. | 
					33/2022, ss. 1(5), 5(2) | 
					
			
					| 
						  | 
					20/2005, ss. 2, 53 (5) | 
					
			
					| 
						  | 
					26/2005, ss. 96 (4) (5) (6), 364 (1) | 
					
			
					| 
						Appl. | 
					20/2005, ss. 2, 51 (4) | 
					
			
					| 
						Applic. ext. | 
					19/2003, ss. 2, 4 (3) (c), 9 (5) | 
					
			
					| 
						  | 
					20/2005, ss. 2, 54, 74(4)(c) | 
					
			
					| 
						Appl. with nec. mods. | 
					31/1996, ss. 2, 18 (3) | 
					
			
					| 
						Saving for cert. proceedings under, transit. provn. | 
					4/1989, s.18 (3) (4) | 
					
			
					| 
						Trans. of cert. functns. under. | 
					S. I. No. 294 of 1973 | 
					
			
					| 
						  | 
					S.I. No. 81 of 1987 | 
					
			
					| 
						  | 
					S.I. No. 418 of 2011, arts. 1(2), 3 & sch. 1 | 
					
			
					| 
						S. 3(a) am. | 
					24/2010, ss. 1(2), 169, schedule, pt. 4, item 1 | 
					
			
					| 
						S.7 (2), exc. (a), appl. | 
					1/1945, s.3 | 
					
			
					| 
						Ss. 8 (1), 10 (1) am. | 
					1/1945, s.2 | 
					
			
					| 
						S. 12 am. | 
					24/2010, ss. 1(2), 99 and schedule, pt. 2, item 9 | 
					
			
		
		
		SIs made under the Act
		
			| Section | SIs made under the Act | 
			
			
					| 
						None | 
					 |