9A   Amendment of Acts: references to certain matters

Where a reference in an Act is (by or under any Act) to be read or construed as, or taken to be, or deemed to be, or otherwise treated as, a reference to:

(a)  an act, matter, person or thing, or

(b)  an act, matter, person or thing by a particular description or title,

the Attorney General may, by order published in the Gazette, make such amendments to the Act in which the firstmentioned reference occurs, except so much thereof as is an excluded law, as:

(c)  will result in the omission from the Act of the firstmentioned reference and, unless inappropriate, the substitution therefor of the secondmentioned reference, and

(d)  are incidental to or consequential on the omission or substitution or both.