What is the difference between repeal and revoke

Subscribe for Access. You must be logged in order to save postings. Username or E-mail. Remember Me. Bills before the House at this date continued to use the old terminology. Previously, "add" meant to insert at the end of a provision, while "insert" meant to insert at any other location.

Now only " insert " is used, and the location is specified:. There is a new style for the principal Act or principal Legislative Instrument clause, where the relationship with the principal Act or Legislative Instrument is set out:. Where a provision amends a single provision, the heading of the amending provision is more explicit:. Note that there is no intention to apply the new terminology retrospectively. Rescind implies the exercise of the proper authority in abolishing or making void.

It may suggest exercise of legal, judicial, or legislative authority, or it may suggest the exercise of the summary authority of a sovereign, dictator, master, or parent. He, who gives a conditional bond to ano ther, has a right to disannul it, if the specified conditions are not punctually observed.

To revoke a promise now-a-days, is no other, than fashionable; whereas, formerly, it was considered, as a breach of friendship.

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