Bill Presented – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 May 1964.
Bill to repeal the remaining Defence Regulations (that is to say those set out in the Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act, 1959), except the Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations, 1939, and to reenact certain of those Defence Regulations with modifications; and to continue for limited periods the Ships and Aircraft (Transfer Restriction) Act, 1939, and certain powers of the Board of Trade relating to jute products, presented by Mr. Green; supported by Mr. Christopher Soames, Mr. Noble, Mr. Anthony Barber, the Attorney-General, Mr. Edward du Cann, and Vice-Admiral John Hughes Hallett; read the First time; to be read a Second time Tomorrow and to be printed. [Bill 143.]
Laws are the rules by which a country is governed. Britain has a long history of law making and the laws of this country can be divided into three types:- 1) Statute Laws are the laws that have been made by Parliament. 2) Case Law is law that has been established from cases tried in the courts - the laws arise from test cases. The result of the test case creates a precedent on which future cases are judged. 3) Common Law is a part of English Law, which has not come from Parliament. It consists of rules of law which have developed from customs or judgements made in courts over hundreds of years. For example until 1861 Parliament had never passed a law saying that murder was an offence. From the earliest times courts had judged that murder was a crime so there was no need to make a law.
