Overview
- Officials said 65 of the targeted laws are amendments and six are principal Acts.
- The move is framed as removing provisions that have outlived their utility rather than a push against colonial-era statutes.
- At least one of the laws proposed for repeal dates back to the British era, according to officials.
- An official explained that once an amendment is absorbed into a principal law, the standalone amendment clutters the statute books and can cause confusion.
- The government reports 1,562 laws have been repealed since 2014, and the total would rise to 1,633 if Parliament passes the new Bill.