Uttar Pradesh May Become The First State To Repeal 1,000 British-Era Laws In One Go.

Uttar Pradesh  will become the first state in the country to repeal 1,000 of the laws of British Era. The government  has drawn up a list of such “obsolete” laws and will table a bill in the forthcoming budget session for their repeal.
UP law minister Brijesh Pathak said many such laws have lost relevance in the wake of new legal provisions enacted over the years. “All such laws are being scrutinised for being repealed in one go.The list compiled by the law department also mentions “The United Province Act, 1890”, enacted by the British Governor-General-in-Council on October 16, 1890, for better administration of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.”
Incidentally, the decision to scrap obsolete laws comes a week after the Yogi government celebrated the first UP Diwas to commemorate the 68th year of UP’s formation from the erstwhile United Provinces.
The process of identifying old and irrelevant laws was initiated in September 2014 after the 20th Law Commission of India, then headed by Justice AP Shah, asked Prasad to continue the process under the project ‘Identification of Obsolete Laws’.
The commission also noted the study needs to identify laws which are inconsistent with modern and newer laws, with Supreme Court judgments and international conventions signed  and ratified by India.