Obsolete Acts

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday justified the need to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act saying any law becomes "obsolete" after 50 years.

Supreme Court judge Justice Arun Mishra today praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and termed him as an "internationally acclaimed visionary" and a "versatile genius, who thinks globally and acts locally".

The parliament today passed two bills to repeal 245 obsolete and archaic laws, including the 158-year-old Calcutta Pilots Act of 1859 and Prevention of Seditious Meeting Act, 1911.

Besides the GST Bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious plan to scrap obsolete laws became another casualty of the logjam in the Rajya Sabha with two such bills seeking to repeal over 1000 such Acts failing to get Parliamentary approval in the winter session.

A bill seeking to scrap a set of 295 obsolete Acts dealing with several issues including changes in marriage laws and cement hoarding was today passed by Lok Sabha which continued to witness boycott by Congress and several other opposition parties.

A Bill to repeal 295 obsolete laws, including an 1898 Act which discriminates against lepers, was introduced in the Lok Sabha today as part of an exercise to clear statute books of redundant legislations.

Carrying on with the exercise of repealing irrelevant laws clogging statute books, the government today approved a bill seeking to annul another set of 295 obsolete Acts.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday justified the need to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act saying any law becomes "obsolete" after 50 years.

Supreme Court judge Justice Arun Mishra today praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and termed him as an "internationally acclaimed visionary" and a "versatile genius, who thinks globally and acts locally".

The parliament today passed two bills to repeal 245 obsolete and archaic laws, including the 158-year-old Calcutta Pilots Act of 1859 and Prevention of Seditious Meeting Act, 1911.

Besides the GST Bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious plan to scrap obsolete laws became another casualty of the logjam in the Rajya Sabha with two such bills seeking to repeal over 1000 such Acts failing to get Parliamentary approval in the winter session.

A bill seeking to scrap a set of 295 obsolete Acts dealing with several issues including changes in marriage laws and cement hoarding was today passed by Lok Sabha which continued to witness boycott by Congress and several other opposition parties.

A Bill to repeal 295 obsolete laws, including an 1898 Act which discriminates against lepers, was introduced in the Lok Sabha today as part of an exercise to clear statute books of redundant legislations.

Carrying on with the exercise of repealing irrelevant laws clogging statute books, the government today approved a bill seeking to annul another set of 295 obsolete Acts.