Cabinet nod to repeal 71 laws which have outlived utility

The Union Cabinet connected Friday (December 12, 2025) cleared a Bill to repeal 71 laws which person outlived their inferior successful the statute books, officials said.

Out of the 71 laws, 65 are amendments to main Acts and six are main laws.

At slightest 1 instrumentality projected to beryllium repealed is of the British era, the officials said.

The projected repeal and amendment measure is not aimed astatine striking disconnected assemblage laws but to region Acts which person outlived their utility, an authoritative said.

"Once an amendment is passed by Parliament, it gets subsumed successful the main law. It past lone clutters the statute books," an authoritative explained.

So far, 1,562 aged archaic laws person been repealed.