The Law Review Commission has made some recommendations about laws to be repealed or retired. These were covered at the RA meeting on 3 January 2015. It's clear that Coop, Delia and Widget have done a lot of work on our behalf to consider how we clean up our code of laws. This is really helpful and essential work (but major drudgery!) So thanks to the commission for this work and in anticipation of further forensic analysis.
I've had a quick look at the laws under consideration and have a few questions. It's not obvious to me at first glance why some of these have been flagged for repeal or retirement. For some of them, the RA will need to draft replacement laws as some component of the Act is still relevant (in my opinion).
NL 5-10 Microplot Termination Act
It seems to me that the requirement "In future, the CDS will sell no plot less than 128 m 2 in size" is still relevant and needs to be either preserved or rejected after suitable discussion and debate.
NL 4-5 Central Commercial District Land Fee Act
The requirement "All lots in the central commercial district (as defined in NL 4-2) shall be assessed a monthly land fee equal to 133% of the base land fee for lots inside the city walls" sets the price for the Marketplatz lots. What happens if this is abolished?
NL 7-3 Web Portal Act
I think we need to keep this one, or at least some parts of it. This Act states "The responsibility for administering and maintaining the CDS Web Portal lies with the Executive Branch, and in particular with the CDS Public Information Officer (“the PIO”). The Executive will appoint a system administrator for the new site". What happens if the responsibility in this Act is retired?
CDSL 16-06 Repeal of 13-07 Term Limits Act
I think it's fine to 'retire' this, but somehow we need to keep a record of whether we have term limits or not as we go back and forth on this law quite frequently. I once had to try and work out whether we still had term limits or not (as we seemed to have forgotten) and this required looking at and for all the laws on this and working out which one was current!