Alex White (Labour)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 3, lines 18 to 21, to delete subsection (3) and substitute the following:

"(3) The Courts of Justice Acts 1924 to 1961, the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Acts 1961 to 2007 and section 7(a), to the extent that it amends the Courts of Justice Act 1924, may be cited together as the Courts Acts 1924 to 2008 and shall be construed together as one.".

The reason for this proposed amendment is that there appears to be an inconsistency in the collective citations of the Courts of Justice Acts. There is one citation for the Acts dating from 1924 to 1961 and a second citation for the Acts from 1961 onwards, even though the Courts of Justice Act 1961 extensively amended the Courts of Justice Act 1924. The amendment proposes to bring some order to this chaos. "Chaos" may be too strong a word to use in the circumstances, but there seems to be an inconsistency bordering on the chaotic. The suggestion is to use a single composite citation, namely, "Courts of Justice Acts 1924 to 2008" from hereon.