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Version date: 1 January 2019 - onwards
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2. Interpretation.

(1) In this Act, save where the context otherwise requires -

"the Act of 1964" means the Guardianship of Infants Act, 1964;

"the Act of 1965" means the Succession Act, 1965;

"the Act of 1976" means the Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act, 1976;

"the Act of 1989" means the Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act, 1989;

"the Act of 1995" means the Family Law Act, 1995;

"Act of 2018" means the Domestic Violence Act 2018;

"civil partnership" has the meaning assigned to it by the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010;

"conveyance" includes a mortgage, lease, assent, transfer, disclaimer, release and any other disposition of property otherwise than by a will or a donatio mortis causa and also includes an enforceable agreement (whether conditional or unconditional) to make any such disposition;

"the court" shall be construed in accordance with section 38;