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A hundred and fifty-nine years after the first train run, the Indian Railways will finally be ours. The British, 65 years after they quit India, have formally proposed severing their old existing links with India's railway network. The British Law Commission has proposed revocation of all old laws and regulations pertaining to the operation and running of the Indian Railways in its latest statute law repeals report.
The proposals for repeals relate to 12 old companies of the Indian Railways - which were diluted following Independence - and, more particularly, the legislation that facilitated the construction of various railway lines across the Indian subcontinent, the subsequent maintenance of those railway undertakings and their gradual absorption into state control.
The latest report of the Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill, which was recently presented before the British Parliament, has recommended repealing 38 Acts related to the various railway com panies on the grounds that they are obsolete.
The Bill, the largest that the Law Commission has ever produced, has proposed the annulment of 817 Acts and part revocation of 50 others and is expected to be introduced in the ongoing session of the British Parliament. The commission does not just propose new laws, but also proposes the repeal of those which have become obsolete. The purpose is to modernise and simplify the statute book, reduce its size, and save the time of lawyers and others who use it.
This, in turn, helps avoid unnecessary costs. It also stops people from being misled by obsolete laws which masquerade as 'live laws'. The Law Commission presents their proposals to the government through statute law repeals reports, published with a draft Bill. Repeal proposals are implemented through special statute law (repeals) bills.
Eighteen such Bills have been enacted since 1965, repealing more than 2,500 Acts. The latest statute law (repeals) report was publ ished early this year and work on the next report (due for publication in 2016) has begun