House passes state budget and bill to repeal obsolete acts

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana assembly on Thursday passed the 201617 budget estimates by clearing the Haryana Appropriation (number 2) Bill, 2016.

Finance minister Ca pt Abhimanyu moved the Haryana Appropriation Bill which was passed by the House to authorise payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the consolidated fund of Haryana for the services during the financial year ending on March 31, 2017. OBSOLETE ACTS REPEALED

The state assembly also passed the Haryana Appropriation (Repeal) Bill, 2016 to repeal certain Haryana Appropriation Acts. The objective of the Bill is to repeal enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become obsolete or the retention whereof as separate, independent and distinct Acts was unnecessary. The principal object of such repealing Acts is to excise dead matter, prune off superfluities and remove such redundant laws from the statute book to bring clarity.

Haryana was under President’s Rule from November 2,1967 to May 22,1968 and during this period, three Appropriation Acts (Haryana Appropriation Act, 1967, 1968 and Haryana Appropriation (Vote on Account) Confirmed Act, 1968) were passed as shown on the statute books of the central government.

The Appropriation Acts enacted during past 66 years in reality have lost their meaning but are still shown on the statute books. These laws have become either irrelevant or dysfunctional and importantly have served their purpose and outlived their utility.

The Commission on Review of Administrative Laws gave its report in 1998, inter alia recommending repeal of 700 Appropriation Acts passed by the Parliament from time to time since 1950 on the ground that these laws have become either irrelevant or dysfunctional. HTC