§ MR. HOWELL (Bethnal Green, N.E.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to issue future volumes of the Revised Edition of the Statutes, now in course of publication, with all the needless and useless expressions and repetitions which are expunged in the two first volumes, and with the obsolete, spent, and virtually repealed Acts or parts of Acts proposed to be repealed by the Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 371), or whether steps will be taken to continue the repeal of this useless matter as to future volumes, in order that they may correspond with the volumes already published?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHI cannot give an engagement that Acts which have not actually been repealed shall not appear in the Revised Edition of the Statutes until they have been repealed; I have no authority to do so. The Statute Law Revision Bill will be re-introduced next Session in order that it may be considered by the House.
§ In reply to a Question by Mr. BRAD-LAUGH as to whether certain obsolete Statutes to which attention has been drawn would be included,
§ MR. W. H. SMITHsaid: The assistance of the Law Officers of the Crown will certainly be asked in a matter of this kind.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYWould it not be advisable to appoint a small and strong Select Committee to consider the subject?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHI will consider the suggestion of the hon. and learned Member. The Government will communicate all the information possible to the House.