Powers of Commissioner to omit provisions

(1) In the preparation of the revised edition, the Commissioner may omit , (a) all laws or provisions of laws which have been repealed expressly or by necessary implication or which have expired or have become spent or have had their effect; (b) all long titles and general enactment clauses repealing enactments contained in Acts, and also all tables of lists of repealed enactments, whether contained in Schedules or otherwise; 9 (c) all preambles to Acts, where such omission can, in the opinion of the Commissioner, be conveniently made; (d) all introductory words of enactments in any Act or section of an Act; (e) all enactments prescribing the date when any enactment or any provision of any enactment is to come into force where such omission can, in the opinion of the Commissioner, be conveniently made; (f) all amending Acts or parts of Acts where the amendments effected by such Acts or parts of Acts have been embodied by the Commissioner in the Acts to which they relate; (g) transitional powers relating to the vesting or transfer of assets and liabilities or enactments providing for the continuance in force of existing regulations and other instruments or the validation thereof; (h) the definition of any expression in any enactment or any provision in any enactment which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, can be omitted having regard to the of the Interpretation Act, Cap. 1. (2) The provisions of sections 27 and 28 of the Interpretation Act, Cap. 1 shall apply to such omissions in the same way as if the Acts or enactments omitted had been repealed.