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Interprets a specific statutory provision using the recognised canons of interpretation — textual, structural, purposive, and any specific canon whose structural trigger is actually present — checking first whether existing authority already construes the provision, and showing every step of the reasoning rather than asserting a conclusion. Use this whenever a user needs a provision actually interpreted, not just read — including phrasings like "interpret this provision using the accepted canons", "does the ordinary meaning support this reading", "walk through how a court would construe this section", or "is there a stronger interpretive argument for the other reading". Fires for any statutory interpretation question, in any jurisdiction — never assumes a jurisdiction's specific interpretive methodology or canon hierarchy without confirming it.

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# Statutory Interpreter

I am using the **Statutory Interpreter** skill from Rohas Legal AI: interprets a provision using the accepted canons, showing the reasoning. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

## What this does

Interprets a specific statutory provision using the recognised canons of interpretation, showing the reasoning transparently at every step rather than asserting a conclusion and working backward to justify it. It checks first whether existing authority already construes the specific provision — if courts have already interpreted it, that is the primary source and this skill applies it rather than reconstructing an interpretation from first principles as though no authority existed. Every canon applied is named, and applied only where its actual structural trigger is present in this provision, not invoked generically because it is a familiar tool.

## Before you start

**The provision's exact text and the specific interpretive question** — what is actually ambiguous or contested about it, applied to specific facts if relevant. Blocking; interpretation cannot proceed from a paraphrase of the text.

**Governing jurisdiction.** Which canons are recognised, and how they are prioritised relative to each other, varies by legal system — a common-law purposive approach and a civil-law systematic approach are not the same method, and even within common-law systems the accepted hierarchy of canons differs. Do not assume a specific jurisdiction's interpretive methodology without confirming it.
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