Re:The Age of Cretinism
by ben_w on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:56AM
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I had thought all repeals were also laws? The Wikipedia page says this of the USA, but is more ambiguous about my own country (UK, for now).
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No. You can't delete a law by making a law, that's obviously a contradiction.
All repeals are acts of Parliament. However, Acts are essentially diffs to the existing body of law. If you read one you'll see they're full of "insert paragraph X after paragraph Y" type language. An act that repealed a law would just be an act that stated such-and-such a paragraph in the law was to be erased.