What is the test for interpreting a section of the Health and Social Care Act?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Schug v. Odegaard, 1984 CanLII 1188 (AB QB):
The court, therefore, must first look at the object and scheme of the Act. Then, reading the legislation as a whole, the court must attempt to give effect to all the words of the section to be interpreted without creating any inconsistency with other sections or parts of the legislation: Pruden v. Zurich Ins. Co., supra, at pp. 171-72:
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