7.1 Interpretation of Statute Act 2010 B.S.

Nepal's general interpretation statute — the short Act (the 1953/54-era instrument, one of the early statutes of the post-1951 legal modernisation) that supplies the default rules for every Nepal Act unless excluded. Its core machinery:1. The definitions' bank — the general terms' settled meanings (the "person" including the juristic; the gender's inclusiveness; the singular-and-plural; the "Government" meaning; the gazetted dates' computation).2. The commencement rule — the Act's operation from its commencement clause's date (the Gazette publication's role).3. The repeal's effects — the repealed Act's proceedings-and-rights savings (the accrued-and- pending faces).4. The references' rules — the citations, the amendments, the repeals-and-savings read per the standard forms.5. The measurement-and-time rules — the distance, the age, the time computation (the standard clauses). The Act's character: Nepal's General Clauses Act cousin (the Indian 1897 Act and the UK Interpretation Act 1978 as the syllabus's own comparators) — the interpretive infrastructure that the courts apply daily, usually without notice.