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misunderstanding about that matter. There is no doubt in England there is a Statute Law Revision Committee ; but its function is a very limited one. I have with me the Statute Law Revision Committee Act passed in 1927. It is an act which, is passed from time to time by the Parliament. The object of the Statute Law Revision Act is to delete from the Statute book of laws which have become spent, whose purposes have been served and which are not in force, and things of that sort. It is only to clear the dead wood, so to say, from the Statute book of laws which have become unnecessary. Here, I find that the Statute Law Revision Committee was appointed in
- Although the intention of the Government of India when they appointed that Committee was very much the same as embodied in the British Statute, it somehow took upon itself quite a different species of work namely to suggest to the Government certain laws which they themselves drafted. I do not know whether that sort of a thing is necessary. Because, the drafting of laws is entirely a matter for the Government and the drafting is entirely left to the draftsmen who are engaged in the Law Department. From that point of view, therefore, the Law Revision Committee does not appear to me very necessary unless it is found that the Law Department, by reason of the shortness of its personnel is not able to depute somebody whose duty would be to see what laws have been spent, what are unnecessary and what have gone out of force. However, I shall keep the suggestion in my mind when the Government has the time to deal with this question.
With regard to the Federal Court, the question has been raised that the number of Judges is small for the work that is now pending before the court. The question was also raised that the Federal Court is not equipped with a library such as a Federal Court should have. I have not the least doubt in my mind that the Government of India will never be callous to the requirements of the Federal Court and of its library equipment. I have no doubt that this matter will be discussed when the Federal Court will be converted into the Supreme Court. There is not a very long time between the transferance of the Federal Court into the Supreme Court. Consequently, these reforms which have been suggested with regard to the