ABSTRACT
As its name indicates, the short title is normally a brief one. For example, although the long title of the European Assembly Elections Act 1981 contains 43 words and appears as follows:
The practice of the British Parliament is to place the short title at the end of the Act of Parliament immediately before the schedules. Thus the short title of the Housing Act 1957 appears in s 193(1) of that Act. A typical section setting out a short title is:
The reader, it should be noted, has been confronted with 60 pages of statute before reaching the short title, and even then finds the short title as one subsection of a section comprised of seven subsections.
