4. Application of foregoing definition to previous enactments.- (1) The definitions section 3 of the following words and expression, that it to say, "affidavit", "barrister", "District Judge", "father", "immovable property", "imprisonment" Magistrate", "month", "movable property"., "oath", Person", "section", "son", "swear", "will", and "year" apply also, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, to all ( Central Acts,) and Regulations made on or after the fourteenth day of January, 1887.

The definitions in the said section of the following words and expressions, that is to say, "abet" , "Chapter", "commencement", "financial year", "local authority", "master", "offence", "part", "public nuisance", "registered", "schedule", "ship", "sign", "sub-section" and "writing" apply also, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject to context to all, (Central Acts) and Regulations made on a after the fourteenth day of January, 1887.