repeal
Sign in to saveA repeal (O.F. rapel, modern rappel, from rapeler, rappeler, revoke, re and appeler, appeal) is the removal or reversal of a law. There are two basic types of repeal; a repeal with a re-enactment is used to replace the law with an updated, amended, or otherwise related law, or a repeal without replacement so as to abolish its provisions altogether.
Key facts
- Motion.name
- Rescind, repeal, or annul or Amend something previously adopted (RONR)
- Motion.class
- B
- Motion.inorder
- No
- Motion.seconded
- Yes
- Motion.debatable
- Yes
- Motion.amendable
- Yes
- Motion.voterequired
- Majority with notice; or two-thirds; or majority of entire membership
- Motion.reconsidered
- Negative vote only
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- Partial or full repeals
- <span class="anchor" id="Reenactment"></span><!-- [[Repeal with reenactment]] redirects here -->Repeal with or without re-enactment
- Express or implied repeal
- Repeals with or without savings
- Parliamentary procedure
- Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR)
- The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC)
- Legislative use
- Rescind and expunge from the minutes
- See also
- References
A repeal (O.F. rapel, modern rappel, from rapeler, rappeler, revoke, re and appeler, appeal) is the removal or reversal of a law. There are two basic types of repeal; a repeal with a re-enactment is used to replace the law with an updated, amended, or otherwise related law, or a repeal without replacement so as to abolish its provisions altogether.
Removal of secondary legislation is normally referred to as revocation rather than repeal in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Under the common law of England and Wales, the effect of repealing a statute was "to obliterate it completely from the records of Parliament as though it had never been passed." This, however, is now subject to savings provisions within the Interpretation Act 1978.