The Law Commission on Friday submitted a list of 72 laws to the Government that need to be repealed immediately, the oldest being the Bengal Districts Act of 1836 that provides for creation of districts. Another act of the same vintage stipulates that only residents of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal can be directors of the Bengal Bonded Warehouse Association and that the association can sell its property only to the East India Company.
According to the report submitted, 72 laws needed to be repealed as the laws in question were outdated and were no longer needed to govern that subject.
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