Is there a presumption of reasonableness in a statute or by-laws?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Kenny, 1939 CanLII 125 (SK QB):
In statutes and by-laws there is a presumption of reasonableness. In Boon v. Howard (1874) L.R. 9 CP. 277, 43 L.J.C.P. 115, Keating, J. states at 308: “But I hold it to be an essential canon of construction that if the words are susceptible of reasonable and also of unreasonable construction, the former construction must prevail.”
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