On 12 May 2008 20:35:12 GMT, fburton@nyx.net (Francis Burton) wrote:
>In article ,
>Alex Heney wrote:
>>>Why is the reference always "he"?
>>
>>Because the legislators (quite reasonably) don't want to have to say
>>"he or she" every single time, so they included in the Interpretation
>>Act a definition that references to the male gender always include the
>>female and vice versa unless that is not possible, or is actively
>>specified not to be the case.
>
>They could easily alternate "he" and "she" without wasting
>that much ink.
They could, but they don't bother.
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