Interpretation

The following words and expressions used in this Act shall have meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction (that is to say)— The words "street" shall include any public passage or place, and any road, square, court, alley, highway, lane, gully or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, and also the roadway over any public or railway-bridge or causeway, and over the approaches thereto. The words "Words importing the singular number only shall include the plural numbers and words importing the plural number only shall include also the singular number. Words importing the masculine gender shall include females" and the words "The word 'person' shall include a corporation whether aggregate or sole" were repealed by the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1886 (Bom. 3 of 1886), Schedule B. This Schedule has been printed as an Appendix to the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 (Bom. 1 of 1904). The words "The word 'Magistrate' shall include any Magistrate of Police and any Joint Magistrate or other person lawfully exercising the power of Magistrate acting at or for the place or district where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such Magistrate arises" were repealed, ibid. The portion beginning with the words "The expression" and ending with the words "or harbour" was deleted by Bom. 17 of 1945, s. 9, Sch. E, read with Bom. 52 of 1947, s. 2, proviso.