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Colonial Tradition<br />

- American Tradition<br />

Particularly:<br />

- Coode’s legislative sentence<br />

- “Modern” legislative sentence<br />

2. The Grammatical Sentence in Legislation<br />

- Achieving a simpler form<br />

- “Plain English” Functional Clarity<br />

- New and Old Styles<br />

- Communication difficulties<br />

3. Elements <strong>of</strong> the Legislative Provision<br />

- Coode’s Legislative sentence examined<br />

- Grammatical Sentence examined<br />

4. Exercises in Writing Legislative Provisions<br />

5. Preparing the Draft Legislation<br />

- Legislative Policy and Role <strong>of</strong> Drafters<br />

- Analyses; research, syntheses<br />

- Legislative Plan<br />

- Revision and Editing and Checking<br />

- Environment<br />

6. Standing Orders; and Constitution Interpretation Acts, etc.<br />

7. Relations <strong>of</strong> the Drafter to Ancillary Processes<br />

- House Committees- Second Reading<br />

- Responsibility to sponsoring Minister<br />

- Chief <strong>Law</strong> Officer<br />

- Clerks <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />

- Cabinet<br />

- Printing Office<br />

C. Statutes<br />

1. Public Bills<br />

- Government Bills<br />

- Private Members Bills<br />

- Private Bills<br />

- Hybrid Bills<br />

2. Acts<br />

- Public Acts<br />

- Local and Personal Acts<br />

- Private Acts<br />

- Omnibus Acts<br />

- Amending Acts<br />

- Consolidating Acts<br />

- Codifying Acts<br />

- Repealing Acts<br />

3. Statutes<br />

- Accessibility <strong>of</strong> Legislation<br />

- Tables and Indices

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