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Guideline 40
Amendments should preserve the structure of the amended Act.
| 40.1. | Basic-units, subdivisions, or any other type of provision must not be redesignated, since changing the designation of a provision interferes with existing cross-references using the old designation of that provision. Such cross-references may exist not only in other Acts, but also in other legal documents (such as regulations and court opinions), and in other non-legal documents (such as books, newspapers, and so on). | |
| 40.2. | Blanks left by the deletion of basic-units or other designated parts of the text should not subsequently be filled by other provisions, except when the content is identical to the text deleted, since this may deceive the reader into assuming that pre-existing references to the deleted provision refer to the new one having the same designation. Even if the new provision is substantially similar to the repealed one, its designation should be different. Amendments should preserve the structure of the amended Act. | |
