WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Repeal means to revoke, abrogate or cancel particularly a statute. Any statute may repeal any Act in whole or in part, either expressly or impliedly by enacting matter contrary to and inconsistent with the prior legislation. Thus a statute frequently states that certain prior statutory provisions are thereby repealed.

Detailed explanation-2: -The effect of the repeal is to obliterate the statute repealed as completely as if it bad never been passed, and it must be considered as a law which never existed, except for the purposes of those actions or suits which were commenced, prosecuted and con-cluded while it was an existing law.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is argued that when the legislature repeals a Repealing Act, the law as it existed under the Act repealed is restored. The following passage from Maxwell’s treatise on Interpretation of Statutes at P.

Detailed explanation-4: -Under Article 368, Parliament has no power to repeal Fundamental Rights because they are part of the basic structure of the essential framework of the Constitution.