ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Revision of the Laws Act
8. Powers on revision
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
8. Powers on revision
(1)In the preparation of the annual supplement to the Laws of Kenya the Attorney-General shall have the following powers—(a)to omit—(i)all laws or parts of laws which have been repealed expressly or by necessary implication, or which have expired, or which have become spent or have had their effect;(ii)all repealing enactments contained in laws, and all tables or lists of repealed enactments, whether contained in schedules or otherwise;(iii)all preambles or parts of preambles to laws, and all or any recitals in laws, where such omission can, in the opinion of the Attorney-General, conveniently be made;(iv)all introductory words of enactment in any law;(v)all enactments prescribing the date when any law or part of any law is to come into force, where such omission can, in the opinion of the Attorney-General, conveniently be made;(vi)all amending laws or parts of laws where the amendments effected by such laws or parts of laws have been embodied by the Attorney-General in the laws to which they relate;(b)to allocate Chapter numbers to newly included Acts and subsidiary legislation and generally to arrange the Acts by Chapters in such sequence and groups and generally in such order and manner as the Attorney-General thinks proper, and to leave unallocated between groups or in groups such Chapter numbers as he considers may be required for Acts to be enacted in the future;(c)to consolidate into one law two or more laws in pari materia, making the alterations thereby rendered necessary in the consolidated law, and affixing such date thereto as seems most convenient;(d)to alter the order of sections in any law, and, in all cases where it is necessary to do so, to renumber the sections of any law;(e)to alter the form or arrangement of any section of any law, either by combining it in whole or in part with another section or other sections or by dividing it into two or more subsections;(f)to divide any law, whether consolidated or not, into Parts or other divisions;(g)to transfer any provisions contained in an enactment from that enactment to any other enactment to which the Attorney-General considers that it more properly belongs;(h)to supply or alter marginal notes, section headings and tables showing the arrangement of sections;(i)to correct cross-references;(j)to shorten or simplify the phraseology of any law;(k)to add a short title or citation to any law which requires it, and, if necessary or expedient, to alter the long title, short title or citation of any law;(l)to correct grammatical and typographical mistakes in the existing copies of laws, and for that purpose to make verbal additions, omissions or alterations not affecting the meaning of the laws;(m)to correct the punctuation in any law;(n)to provide footnotes by way of amplification;(o)to make such formal alterations as to names, localities offices and otherwise as are necessary to bring any law into conformity with the circumstances of Kenya;(p)to make such adaptations of or amendments to any law as appear to be necessary or proper as a consequence of changes in the constitutions of Commonwealth countries or the composition of the Commonwealth;(q)to make such formal alterations to any law as are necessary or expedient for the purpose of securing uniformity of expression the Laws of Kenya, and power to do all other things relating to form and method, whether similar to the foregoing or not, which appear to him necessary for the perfecting of the Laws of Kenya.(2)Subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (vi) of paragraph (a) and paragraph (n) of subsection (1), and no more, shall apply in respect of foreign legislation applied to Kenya.(3)The provisions of section 23(3) of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act (Cap. 2) shall apply to all omissions made by virtue of this section as if the laws or parts of laws omitted had been repealed.(4)Nothing in this section shall empower the Attorney-General to make any alteration or amendment in the substance of any law.