§ 45. Mr. DAYasked the Prime Minister whether he will consider appointing a committee for the purpose of advising the Government as to the removal from the Statute Book of those laws which, being repugnant to modern thought, are no longer effective but remain unrepealed?
§ The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)I do not know to what particular laws the hon. Member refers. In January, 1934, the Lord Chancellor set up a Standing Committee to consider how far, having regard to the Statute Law and to judicial decisions, such legal maxims and doctrines as the Lord Chancellor might, from time to time refer to them, required revision in modern conditions. Certain matters were then referred to them and, as a result of their reports, the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934, and the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935, have been passed into law. The committee are now occupied with further matters referred to them by the late and the present Lord Chancellors.