Keeling schedule

noun

In a bill or enactment, a schedule that shows how provisions of existing enactments would be amended.

Meanings

nounKeeling schedule (plural Keeling schedules)

plural Keeling schedules

  1. UKlawIn a bill or enactment, a schedule that shows how provisions of existing enactments would be amended.

    Despite its merits, the Keeling schedule has drawbacks. It represents a duplication on the statute book.

    1997, Alec Samuels, “Use of the Keeling Schedule”, in Statute Law Review, volume 18, number 3, page 250
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    The Keeling schedule is a schedule in the new statute setting out the old statute (or part of it) as it will read after amendment by the new statute.

    2013, Ronan Cormacain, “Keeling Schedules and Clarity in Amending Legislation”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, number 15, page 93

    Keeling Schedules are resource intensive to produce, which is perhaps why there are no more recent examples.

    2020, Andrew Makower, Liam Laurence Smyth, “Law Reform Bills in the Parliament of the United Kingdom”, in European Journal of Law Reform, volume 22, number 2, page 166

    The UK Government published a set of Keeling Schedules on 10 May 2023 for the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill version 2.

    2023 July 7, “New development - Keeling Schedules published for the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill”, in Reynolds Porter Chamberlain

Origin

Named after British Member of Parliament Edward Herbert Keeling.

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