SHORT TITLES (NUMERATION)

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Short Titles (Numeration) Ordinance.

2. [3]The Acts of Parliament of each year of shall be distinguished by serial numbers commencing with number one of that year for the Act which first receives the Royal Assent in that year and so in succession in the order in which they receive such Assent; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary to the General forthwith after each Act receives such assent in the short title of that Act its appropriate serial number, and where necessary, to insert or substitute a reference to the year in which the Act receives such Assent.