IDEA FOR COMING SESSION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3199, 21 April 1911, Page 3

IDEA FOR COMING SESSION.

DOCTORING THE STATUTE BOOK

In conversation with an “Otago Daily Times” reporter the other day, Mr. J. A. Hanan, M. P., remarked that it was well known to lawyers and others that the Consolidated Statutes presented a good 1 many very apparent defects and omissions." It was to bo readily admitted that those who were responsible for the consolidation of the statutes had performed a very heavy task, and it might perhaps be urged in extenuation that the hurry of the thing was responsible for the" anomalies existing. It was expedient that some steps should be taken to rectify these omissions during the next session of Parliament. There was very slight prospect of there being an extensive legislative programme during the session, and as the work that would bo involved in revising the Consolidated Statutes would not present anything in the way of contentious legislation, but- would simply mean the rectifying of fairly patent defects, a committee might be set up from the Upper and Lower Houses, to deal with, the whole of the Consolidated Statutes in one session. In the meantime,_ Mr. Hanan suggested, it would be advisable' t.o obtain the advice and assistance of the judges and law societies of the Dominion on the subject.