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Statute law revision

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Francis Savage Reilly. Statute Law Revision: Observations on the New Edition of the Statutes in Preparation under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. James Ridgway. Picadilly, London.1862. "Method of Legislation". Papers and Discussions on Jurisprudence: Being the Transactions of the National
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The Law Commission said that statute law revision originally referred to the repeal of enactments which had become inoperative, in order to facilitate the preparation of a revised edition of the statutes. They said that they intended to adopt a more forceful approach by also repealing enactments
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of dispersed statutes, repeal of dead statutes, and "restatement" (publication of revised, current versions) of amended statutes. As regards consolidation and repeal, the LRC only makes recommendations, which are implemented by
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Halsbury's Laws said that the first act for statute law revision (in the sense of repealing enactments which are obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded, or which no longer serve a useful purpose) was the
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evidence of the state of the law. After four pilot restatements, responsibility for restatements was transferred from the Attorney General's office to the LRC in 2006. The Attorney General's
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Legislation.gov.uk uses the terms "revise", "revised" and "revision" to refer to the editorial process of incorporating amendments and carrying through other effects into legislation.
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comprehensive programmes of statute law revision, and to undertake the preparation of draft Bills pursuant to any such programme approved by the Scottish Ministers.
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O. Hood Phillips defined statute law revision as "the reprinting of statute law with the omission of obsolete matter".
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Association for the Promotion of Social Science. London Meeting, 1862. Butterworths. Fleet Street, London. 1862. pp
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of Part I of Schedule 2 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (SI 1999/1820)).
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which no longer served a substantial purpose, and that they hoped that this would also facilitate consolidation.
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English Statute Law Revised. Analysis of the effect of the Legislation of 1895 and 1896. 2 vols. 1896 - 1897.
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Marshall, "Statute Law Revision in the Commonwealth" (1964) 13 International and Comparative Law Quarterly
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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comprehensive programmes of statute law revision, and to undertake the preparation of draft
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obsolete enactments to facilitate the preparation of such an edition, or to facilitate the
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It is the duty of the Law Commission to prepare from time to time at the request of the
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in 1610. Both Coke and Bacon were employed for some time on a commission for revision.
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In 1971, the Law Commission said that not all statute law revision was being done by
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Law Commission's Second Programme on Consolidation and Statute Law Revision
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Law Commission's First Programme on Consolidation and Statute Law Revision
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may refer to the printing of, or the editorial process of preparing, a
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pursuant to any such programme approved by the Lord Chancellor.
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as desirable as early as 1563 (see the preamble to the act
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to authorise official restatements, which do not have
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Jowitt. Statute Law Revision and Consolidation. 1951.
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Carrington, "Statute Law Revision" (1890) 4 Timehri
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Preparation etc. of revised editions of the statutes
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Index

revised edition of the statutes
repealing
consolidation
Parliament of England
5 Eliz. 1
Commons
Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856
19 & 20 Vict.
Lord Chancellor
Bills
Scottish Law Commission
Scottish Ministers
Statute Law Revision Bills
Statute Law (Repeals) Bills
Theft Act 1968
law of the Republic of Ireland
Law Reform Commission
consolidation
act
Oireachtas
law reform
codification
New South Wales
Queensland
Attorney General
force of law
prima facie
electronic Irish Statute Book
statutory instruments
Statute Law Revision Programme

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