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THE LAW COMMISSION
AND
THE SCOTTISH LAW COMMISSION
STATUTE LAW REVISION:
SIXTEENTH REPORT
Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill
To the Right Honourable the Lord Irvine of Lairg, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the
Right Honourable the Lord Hardie, QC, Her Majesty’s Advocate
1. In pursuance of section 3(1)(d) of the Law Commissions Act 1965, we have
prepared the draft Bill which is Appendix 1 and recommend that effect be given
to the proposals contained in it. An explanatory note on the contents of the draft
Bill forms Appendix 2.
2. The report recommends the repeal of enactments which have been identified,
after detailed research and consultation, as being spent, obsolete, unnecessary or
otherwise not now of practical utility. 1
The proposals have been widely canvassed
with the government departments and other bodies concerned. Appendix 3 lists
the local authorities, statutory undertakers and other persons consulted in
connection with a project to rationalise the local legislation of Hereford and
Worcester (Part V of Schedule 1 to the draft Bill).
3. The report is submitted in pursuance of the Law Commissions’ programmes on
statute law. The broad objective of these programmes is to modernise and
simplify the statute book.
(Signed) MARY ARDEN, Chairman, Law Commission
ANDREW BURROWS
DIANA FABER
CHARLES HARPUM
STEPHEN SILBER
MICHAEL SAYERS, Secretary
BRIAN GILL, Chairman, Scottish Law Commission
E M CLIVE
P S HODGE
K G C REID
NIALL R WHITTY
J G S MACLEAN, Secretary
1 April 1998
1 The enactments proposed for repeal are specified in Schedule 1 to the draft Bill. The
Schedule is divided into Parts, some of which are subdivided into Groups. The Parts are,
in accordance with the drafting practice adopted in Statute Law (Repeals) Acts since
1975, presented according to their alphabetical order of title with a Part at the end dealing
with miscellaneous repeals.
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