Guideline 34

Any Act or provision rendered inapplicable, superfluous, or redundant by virtue of a new Act should be expressly repealed.

34.1.	If the new Act makes an existing Act permanently inapplicable, then the existing Act should be expressly repealed for the sake of legal certainty. An Act may be no longer applicable not only when it is directly incompatible with the new provisions, but also when its application domain is completely covered by the new Act.
34.2.	The express repeal of certain provisions of an Act means that the other provisions of that Act are not implicitly repealed. This reduces the risk that the latter provisions will be considered to be implicitly repealed.

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