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  1. Report by the Committee appointed by the Lord President of the Council, chaired by Rt. Hon Sir (later Lord) David Renton (The Renton Committee), The Preparation of Legislation, Cmnd. 6033, HMSO, London, May 1975, at para 2.8
  2. Thring, Practical Legislation, London, 1902
  3. Sir Courtenay Ilbert, Legislative Methods and Forms, Clarendon Press, 1901
  4. The Preparation of Legislation, as before
  5. Martin Cutts, Unspeakable Acts? Clarifying the Language and Typography of an Act of Parliament, Words at Work, Stockport, 1993
    Euan Sutherland, Clearer Drafting and the Timeshare Act 1992: A Response from Parliamentary Counsel to Mr Cutts (1993) 14 Stat. LR 163
    Martin Cutts, Plain English in the Law (1996) 17 Stat. LR 50
    Martin Cutts, Lucid Law (2nd edition, 2000) Plain Language Commission, Stockport
  6. S.I. 1999/2083
  7. Regulation 7(1)
  8. Regulation 7(2)
  9. OFT's Unfair Contract Terms Guidance, February 2001: this guidance and other information on unfair contract terms is available at www.oft.gov.uk
  10. Reference by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Consumers and Corporate Affairs under section 3(1)(e) of the Law Commissions Act 1965, January 2001 (the Scottish Law Commission also received a parallel reference from the Scottish Ministers.
  11. Law Commissions' Joint Consultation Paper, Unfair Terms in Contracts, (Law Com No. 16, Scot Law Com No. 119), 2002
  12. Law Commissions' Joint report, Unfair Terms in Contracts, (Law Com No. 292, Scot Law Com No. 199), 2005
  13. Thring, Practical Legislation, London, 1902, quoting Mr Justice Stephen
  14. The Rt Hon, The Lord Hope of Craighead, What a Second Chamber Can Do for Legislative Scrutiny, Statute Law Rev 2004 25: 3-18; John McCluskie, New Approaches to UK Legislative Drafting: The View from Scotland, Statute Law Rev 2004 25: 136-143
  15. The Preparation of Legislation, as before, para 11.5
  16. Craies on Legislation, 8th edition, ed. Daniel Greenberg, Sweet & Maxwell, 2004, para 8.1.24
  17. Report of the Hansard Society Commission on the Legislative Process chaired the Lord Rippon of Hexham, Making the Law, 1993
  18. Malcolm Gammie, Legislation for Business: Is it Fit For Public Consumption?, Fiscal Studies (1994) vol. 15, no. 3, page 129
  19. www.hmso.gov.uk
  20. Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c.2), Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c.1), Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c.5)
  21. more information about the Tax Law Rewrite is available at www.hmrc.gov.uk/rewrite
  22. More information on the Scottish Law Commission is available at www.scotlawcom.gov.uk ; more information on the Law Commission for England and Wales is available at www.lawcom.gov.uk
  23. Law Reform Commission Report on Statutory Drafting and Interpretation: Plain Language and the Law (December 2000) ( LRC 61 - 2000)
  24. Government publications, Dublin, July 1999
  25. Department of the Taoiseach, Better Regulation, Dublin, January 2004, pages 34 and 35
  26. More information on Ireland's Statute Law Revision Unit is available at www.attorneygeneral.ie/slru/slru.html
  27. (No. 33 of 2002)
  28. Section 5(1)
  29. More information on the Jersey Legal Information Board is available at www.jerseylegalinfo.je
  30. More information on the New Zealand Law Commission is available at www.lawcom.govt.nz
  31. Report No. 27, The Format of Legislation, Wellington, December 1993
  32. Source: www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/projects/format/survey.shtml
  33. See mission and vision statements at www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/corporatefile/summary.shtml
  34. Sections 17C to 17F of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 (inserted by the Acts and Regulations Publication Amendment Act 1999)
  35. Section 29A of the Evidence Act 1908 (inserted by Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989)
  36. More information on the Public Access to Legislation Project is available on the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office website at www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/pal
  37. Source: Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Plain English Manual, paragraph 7, available at www.opc.gov.au
  38. Plain English and the Law, Report No. 9, Melbourne, 1987; The Structure and Format of Legislation, Report No. 33, Melbourne, June 1990
  39. Guide, manual and many other documents about plain language drafting are available on the Australian Parliamentary Counsel Office website at www.opc.gov.au
  40. replaced in 1997 by the Corporations Law Economic Reform Program ( CLERP)
  41. More information on the Uniform Law Conference of Canada is available at www.ulcc.ca
  42. More information on the explosives regulations project is available on the Natural Resources Canada website at www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/explosif/over/plsummary_e.htm
  43. More information on the employment insurance readability project is available on the HRSDC website at www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/ei/legislation/readability.shtml
  44. Ministry of Justice information material, The Swedish Government promotes clear drafting, 2005
  45. OJ C 166/01, 17.6.1993
  46. (OJ C. 73/01, 17.3.1999)
  47. issued by the Legal Services of the European Parliament, of the Council and of the Commission, 16.3.2000
  48. issued by the Commission, 5.6.2002

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