A consolidating Act is one which draws together and re-enacts
all the statute law on a subject, including, where appropriate,
statutory regulations. Two examples of such Acts are the Factories
Act 1961, which re-enacted the Factories Act 1937-1959 and
various other Acts affecting factories, and the National Insurance
Act 1965, which re-enacted the law relating to national insurance,
including certain statutory instruments.
A consolidating Act differs from a codifying Act in that it
applies only to statute law, whereas a codifying Act applies
to all the law on a particular subject. Furthermore, a consolidation
Act as such creates no change in the law, it merely makes
it easier to find.
A consolidation Act, however, is similar to a codifying Act
in that it is by no means the last word on the subject, for
it may be subject to extension, modification or repeal.
For example, a number of Acts relating to the supervision
of insurance, the first dating from 1909, were eventually
absorbed into a consolidation Act, the Insurance Companies
Act 1958, which at the time it was passed included all the
legislation relating to insurance supervision.
However, since that date so much new legislation on the subject
was passed that the 1958 Act became obsolete and has now been
replaced by a new consolidating Act, the Insurance Companies
Act 1982.
see also Codyfying
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