What is the test for the interpretation of ER 845 of the Penal Reform Act?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Forbes v. Attridge, 1962 CanLII 242 (SK QB):
Rex v. Whitnash (Inhabitants) (1827) 7 B & C 596, 108.ER 845: “It is a penal Act and therefore is not to be construed so as to give it an operation extending beyond the clear and necessary import of its words.”
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