China’s top legislature abolishes eight outdated, redundant laws
China’s largest 23, the legislature passed a law repealing the eight, including involving the police station can be traced back to 1954, is to eliminate redundant, conflicting and outdated laws.
These laws include those relating to the police station, urban neighborhood offices, the use of state-owned barren hills and wasteland, and through the establishment of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese schools and the contributions, four laws can be traced back to the 20th century, the 50’s.
The other four, including tax laws, tax evasion, law enforcement checks and cross-border trafficking in human beings. Replaced by or contained in the law later.
The first batch of eight law proposes to remove the package in more than 20 years, experts said.
These laws “does not apply to the current economic and social development, especially the socialist market economy conditions, said:” Lebanon?vision director for legislative affairs committee of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, informed members at the same time Monday.
The top legislature began in July last year to streamline the law, “in 1972 provided more than 200 clean-up warning about the law,” Li said.
As of June 26, 2008, China has 229 laws include the Constitution, civil and commercial law, administrative and economic law and criminal law, and so on.
“Some laws do not meet each other, and there are laws that are not feasible, or difficult to implement, through state power,” he said.
Beijing University Law School strong week that a mature legal system need to take out of date law books.
Han-yun, director of Suotong law firms in the southwest Chongqing Municipality said that although China’s legal system has been formed, some law is not feasible to develop or very poor.
“Remove the law should be a priority,” the lawmakers said Han Guangsheng.
111 Abolition of the top legislature announced that the law in 1987 through the overhaul of the law from 1949 to 1978. The State Council carried out 10 inspections since the reform and opening up began in Ordinance 1978.
The ninth session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress ended a 6-day, bi-monthly meeting on Saturday.
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