Repealing and Amending Act 2025: Winter Session Law Cleanup
Why in the news
Parliament passed the Repealing and Amending Act, 2025 in its just-ended winter session, as part of an effort to tidy up the statute book.
Key facts
- Passed in the recently concluded winter session of Parliament.
- Purpose: simplify the legal framework of the country.
- Method one: repeal obsolete and redundant laws.
- Method two: targeted amendments to a few existing statutes.
What such an Act does
A repealing and amending law is a clean-up measure. It does not create a new policy area; it removes laws that have outlived their use and corrects selected provisions in older statutes so that the rulebook stays shorter and easier to follow.
Exam angle
- Name and year: Repealing and Amending Act, 2025.
- Objective: remove obsolete and redundant laws and simplify the legal framework.
- Related terms: repeal, amendment, winter session.