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Guideline 37
An amending Act should not contain new autonomous provisions which are not related to the Act or Acts being amended.
| 37.1. | An amending Act should contain only modifications to existing Acts and not contain new autonomous provisions which are not to be inserted in the Acts to be amended. Since an amending Act has the sole purpose to modify the amended Acts, it should exhaust its effect once the amendments come into operation. After the amendment, the Acts as amended should continue to govern the entire subject. | |
| 37.2. | This approach simplifies the codification of legislative texts considerably, since the presence of autonomous provisions within a body of amending provisions leads to a convoluted legal situation with substantive basic-units of the original Act scattered into a number of different Acts. (But see Guideline 43). | |
