Parliament to take up bills top repal 236 obsolete Acts

New Delhi Dec 17: In a move to ensure that old laws which no longer exists are repealed the government had earlier introduced two bills in 2017 and these bills would be passed by the parliament in winter session which had begun on Friday.

Earlier parliament had passed Four Acts to repeal 1175 central laws between May 2014 and August 2016. Earlier a two-member committee constituted by the PMO, the Law Commission, and the Legislative Department had identified 1824 redundant and obsolete Central Acts for repeal.

Repealing and Amending Bill 2017 - to repeal 105 redundant Acts
Repealing and Amendment (second) Bill, 2017 - 131 redundant acts would be repealed and nine ordinances by the then Governors-General.

Some of the Acts that would be repealed by these bills include
# The Ganges Tolls Act, 1867
# Caste Disabilities Removal Act of 1850
# Transfer of Evacuee Deposits Act, 1954
The bills seek to repeal some of the acts which were passed by the British government and also scrap some of the acts passed by the successive governments.

Most of them are Amendments Acts which no longer cease to exists as these provisions are incorporated in the act.