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    "content": "I have now had the benefit of considerable reflection on the issues raised and the responses urged and I have come to the view that these issues can best be dealt with in two categories, namely; those that go to the question of appropriateness of the content of the Bill as a whole, the matter of its introduction and the procedure for its disposal and those which challenge the constitutionality of specific provisions of the Bill. In respect of the first category, I think it is pertinent to interrogate the scope and intent of a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. Generally in this country and elsewhere in the Common Wealth, the traditional - and I may add orthodox - role of this kind of Bill is to make minor amendments to the statutes. This, indeed, is the long title of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2012. The rationale for this kind of Bill is to save the time of Parliament by making, in one Bill, all the minor amendments and corrections to statutes whose non-contentious and mundane nature will not merit the numerous amendment Bills that will otherwise be entailed. To borrow a classical example from Canada, the long title of the Miscellaneous Statute Law (Amendment) Act, 2001, provides that it is “an act to correct certain anomalies in consistencies and errors and to deal with other matters of uncontroversial and uncomplicated nature in the statutes of Canada and to repeal certain provisions that have expired, lapsed or otherwise ceased to have effect”."
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