Over 1,000 outdated laws will be off the statute as President Pranab Mukherjee has given assent to two legislations recently passed by the Parliament in this regard.
The Centre has notified The Appropriation Acts (Repeal) Act, 2016 and The Repealing and Amending Act, 2016, to erase obsolete laws lying unnecessarily on the statute-book. The two laws scrapping 1,053 outdated laws got the Presidential assent on Friday, according to an official order.
The Appropriation Acts will repeal 758 old appropriation acts, which have lost relevance and the another law will do away with 295 enactments. The Rajya Sabha had on April 27 passed these two Bills. They were passed by Lok Sabha in May last. Appropriation Acts are intended to operate for a limited period – authorising expenditures for the duration of one financial year. Though these Acts are not usually included in any list of Central Acts, either by the Law Ministry, or elsewhere, these laws still technically remain in the books.