Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

construction act

A legislative directive included in a statute, intended to guide or direct a court's interpretation of the statute. 0 A construction act can, for example, be a simple statement such as "The word week' means seven consecutive days" or a broader directive such as "Words and phrases are to be read in context and construed according to the rules of grammar and common usage. Words and phrases that have acquired a technical or particular meaning, wheth