STATUTES REPEAL BILL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2190, 20 September 1907, Page 2

STATUTES REPEAL BILL.

INTRODUCED BY ATTORNEYGENERAL. SWEEPING AWAY OBSOLETE ACTS. Special to Times. WELLINGTON. Sept. 19. The Statutes Repeal Bill, which has been introduced by the AttorneyGeneral, has for its objects the facilitating of the work of the Commissioners appoointed under the Reprint of Statutes Act, 1895, by removing from tlie Statute Book a number of enactments that from their nature would find no place in the consolidated statutes. The completion of the work of tho Commissioners will render necessary a reprint of the existing local and personal Acts which now number 1019, and as a very large number of these are spent or obsolete, a reprint of the whole as they now stand would mar the general usefulness of the undertaking. As a preliminary to tho preparation of tlie schedule to the Bill circulars were sent to the local authorities or persons interested in any local or personal Acts, asking for a report on such Acts with a view to their repeal or partial repeal or consolidation. Enquiry was also made with a, like object of tho heads of the various Departments concerned in the administration of any local or personal Acts. From the replies received to these circulars and enquiries, tho schedule so far as it relates to local and personal Acts has been framed. In no case lias any Act or enactment been included in the schedule contrary to the expressed wish of tlioso interested in the Act or of those responsible for its administration.