ABSTRACT
It has been said that Parliament can do anything except make a man a woman. Obviously, if an Act of Parliament stated that a person named in that Act was a woman whereas in fact he was a man, the wrong statement in the Act of Parliament could not make him a woman in fact. The facts would remain unchanged notwithstanding the Act of Parliament. Similarly, if an Act of Parliament wrongly stated that a road was in a certain township whereas in fact it was not, the statement in the Act of Parliament could not have the effect of putting that road into that township. As a result, a court which was called upon to find the meaning of that Act of Parliament would have to consider that Act in the light of the true fact that the road was not in the township.1
