In its effort to weed out archaic and dead statutes, the Union Cabinet Wednesday approved a bill to scrap 58 laws which have lost their relevance. The NDA government in its two terms has sent to the chopping block 1824 old laws which had become redundant. The list of the 58 laws which will be repealed was not immediately available, but sources in the government said most are Acts which were enacted to amend principal or main laws. Their presence in the statute books as independent laws is unnecessary and they are only clogging the system," said a government functionary. It said Australia has a system where Appropriation Acts are repealed automatically as there is a 'sunset clause' attached to them.

Source: dna July 17, 2019 13:35 UTC