3Short title, interpretation and commencement.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Common Informers Act, 1951.
(2)The reference in this Act to any penalty or forfeiture under any Act in the Schedule to this Act shall include a reference to any penalty or forfeiture under any such Act as extended by any other Act; and for the purposes of this Act a person shall be treated as none the less liable because the consent of the Attorney General or of some other person would have been needed before proceedings were instituted.
(3)This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.