§ 15. Mr. RADFORDasked whether, since the publication in 1900 of the last of the sixteen volumes of the revised edition of the Statutes bringing the revision down to the end of 1886, Statutes and parts of Statutes covering more than 1,700 pages in such edition have been repealed, and many enactments have been applied, restricted or extended, or otherwise dealt with, and more than 1,200 short titles have been given to existing Statutes; and whether it is intended forthwith to publish a new edition omitting the repealed enactments, adding the short titles to the existing Statutes, and otherwise bringing the revision up to the present date?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Montagu)This subject has for some time engaged the attention of the Statute Law Committees. In view of a new edition of the Statutes revised, a Statute Law Revision Bill is now being prepared under instructions from the Committee. The existing (second) edition was, some years ago, brought down to the end of the year 1900, and consists of twenty volumes.