Promise broken?
PA i . - Wellington The Attorney-General (Mr McLayVwas not-sticking to his proihis^r^e' Shadow for Consti- . tutioaalSA-ffairs, Mr G.' W.< R. Palnier, has charged. Soqie statutes, or laws, which.;: the. Minister said would be reprinted in 1979 ' were fe’till not available* and the reprinting project.had been to “inordinate delays he said. ; , ■ New Zealand, he said, Sid' learn a lesson from tralia.
“The contents of-thei entire statute book of Australia is recorded on computer. Computer typesetting is jalsp. used. The last reprint of the Australian whichbegan in 1973, was completed in 1976. .Now whenever fa? statute is amended it can be reprinted with ease.’The superseded law is removed from the volume and replaced by the up4o-date version.? • “New Zealand is approaching the problem of providing access to the law by methods appropriate to the horse and buggy era.”
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