From Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
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The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe TD today announced that the Government has approved the publication of the Statute Law Revision Bill 2024 to simplify and improve accessibility of legislation and has reaffirmed its commitment to a programme of modernising the statute book.
The Minister said:
“I am pleased that the Government has approved my legislative proposals to continue with our task of simplifying the statute book and improving its accessibility. The Statute Law Revision Bill is part of a suite of measures contained in the Statute Law Revision Programme which will further reduce the outdated and unnecessary legislation cluttering our statute book and pave the way for further modernisation measures.”
The published Bill is the result of the review of all available secondary legislation from 1820 to 1860.
It builds upon the clarity brought by the Statute Law Revision Acts enacted between 2005 and 2016. These Acts reviewed all primary legislation enacted prior to 1950 and repealed those which were spent or obsolete, as well as all secondary legislation up to 1820. The vast number of items of legislation - over 75,000 Acts and instruments already examined - mean that this work must be done in a comprehensive and planned way.
In this context, the Government also agreed that the Bill will be followed by further measures in a comprehensive programme to bring the statute book entirely up to date.
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