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Answer the following in not more than two sentence each
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(a)What do you mean by 'Absurdity'?[2]
Answer
An absurdity is a result so unreasonable, self-contradictory or repugnant to the rest of the Act that the legislature cannot have intended it. It is the trigger for the golden rule of construction.
Grey v. Pearson (1857) 6 HLC 61 states the rule. The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to unless it leads to some absurdity, repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the ordinary sense may be modified so far as is necessary to avoid that result, and no further.
So absurdity does not entitle the court to rewrite the section. It permits a departure measured by the absurdity itself.
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