Section 5: Powers of Law Revision Unit

5. Powers of Law Revision Unit (1) The Law Revision Unit may, in the preparation of a revised edition— (a) omit an enactment or a part of an enactment which has been expressly or impliedly repealed or has become spent or obsolete by reason of its being in the nature of a transitional provision or otherwise; (b) omit— (i) the preamble to any enactment; (ii) the enacting clause to any enactment; (iii) any provision prescribing the date of the commencement of an enactment; (iv) all portions, other than the titles, of an enactment which is of a private nature; (v) the subscriptum to an enactment; (c) consolidate, with all necessary consequential changes, enactments in pari materia; (d) reorder or renumber any part of an enactment; R24 – 3 [Issue 6] Revision of Laws Act (e) alter the form or arrangement of any enactment— (i) by transferring words; (ii) by combining it, in whole or in part, with another enactment; or (iii) by creating divisions in an enactment; (f) arrange enactments in any sequence or grouping; (g) add or alter a title or short title to an enactment; (h) supply, alter or omit marginal notes; (i) supply, alter or omit tables of contents; (j) correct cross references; (k) shorten or simplify the phraseology of an enactment; (l) correct grammatical, typographical and similar errors in an enactment and for that purpose make additions, omissions or alterations; (m) make such formal alterations as to names, localities, offices, procedures and otherwise as may be necessary to bring an enactment into conformity with the circumstances existing at the date of the coming into force of the revised edition; and (n) do all such other things relating to form and method which appear necessary for the revision of an enactment.