ABSTRACT
The long title is the first of the elements of an Act of Parliament that can be used to find the meaning of the Act, and generally its scope.4 It can also be used to remove ambiguity.5 Another use is to ascertain the purpose for which the statute has been enacted.6 Indeed, as Lord Simon of Glaisdale has said in the House of Lords the long title ‘is the plainest of all the guides to the general objectives of a statute’.7
