parliamentary change

• Parliamentary change:

  Repeal:

  • Old/obsolete laws removed from the stature books
  • E.g Emergency Powers Act 1920

  Creation: 

  • New laws are created due to need, demand, pressure, or manifesto commitments.
  • Can adapt or update existing provisions to meet new needs
  • E.g Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

  Consolidation: 

  • New legislation enacted to update or amend previous statutes
  • Bring together successive statutes on the same subject
  • E.g Powers of Criminal Courts Act 2000

  Codification:

  • Bringing together a large body of Case Law and Statute together
  • Increase certainty
  • E.g Pace 1984