STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL

Order for Second Reading read.

The Second Minister for Law (Prof. S. Jayakumar): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

Sir, this Bill is a technical Bill to make a number of minor and formal amendments to various laws and to repeal fifteen other Acts and Ordinances in accordance with the recommendations of the Law Revision Commissioners who were appointed to prepare a revised edition of our Acts.

The object of the various amendments contained in the First Schedule to the Bill is to remove and update obsolete provisions of the statute laws but without changing their original intent or purpose. This Bill will enable the amendments to be incorporated in the new revised edition of our Acts currently being prepared. Members will observe that the amendments are generally of a formal nature and self-explanatory.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.

The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. - [Prof. S. Jayakumar].

Bill considered in Committee.

[Mr Speaker in the Chair]

Clause 1 -

The Chairman: The citation year will be altered from "1985" to "1986".

Clause 1 ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clauses 2 and 3 ordered to stand part of the Bill.

First and Second Schedules ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Bill reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.