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The Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856 [1] [2] (19 & 20 Vict. c. 64), also known as the Statute Law Revision Act 1856, [3] was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for the United Kingdom enactments from 1285 to 1777 which had ceased to be in force or had become necessary.
The doctrine exists in Scotland, being of the civil law tradition, where it can operate as a rare form of repeal. In Scotland, non-use is not the same as desuetude. Disuse must be accompanied by other identifiable provisions that would make the enforcement of the statute inconsistent: neglect over such a period of time that it would appear that a contrary custom had developed; and that a ...
This led to the passing of the Repeal of Obsolete Statutes Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 64), described by Halsbury's Laws, [26] and Courtenay Ilbert, [2] as the first act for statute law revision (in the sense of repealing enactments which are obsolete, spent, unnecessary or superseded, or which no longer serve a useful purpose).
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Although it is still deemed too difficult a task to attempt to embody, in the more tangible form of writing, the floating rules of the unwritten law, we are called upon by the high authority of the Crown to devise means for reducing into shape and order the heterogeneous mass of written laws which now swell and encumber our Statute Book."
And although they still show up at the WTO in Geneva, they have made it all too clear to the rest of the world that, in the view of the U.S., the WTO is no longer central to world trade, and that ...
The words at the beginning were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 39). The words in the second and third places were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 56). The words in the last place were repealed by section 46(2) of, and Part III of Schedule 7 to, the Justices of the Peace Act 1949.
We began the exercise of identifying unnecessary laws and repealing them. 1,877 Central laws have been identified for repeal." [1] The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 25 July 2019 by the Minister of Law and Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad. The bill sought to repeal 58 Acts and pass minor amendments to two Acts.