The Government of Odisha on September 23, 2026, issued the Odisha Repealing Bill, 2026.
The following has been stated:
• The Bill seeks to repeal 358 enactments, including various Amendment Acts enacted between 1974 and 2025, that have become obsolete, redundant, spent, or unnecessary due to subsequent legislative developments and changes in government policies.
• The Bill aims to simplify and rationalise the statute book, remove outdated legal provisions and improve legal clarity and administrative efficiency. Section 2 provides for repeal of the enactments specified in the Schedule to the extent indicated therein. Section 3 safeguards existing rights, liabilities, obligations, proceedings and actions taken under the repealed enactments, while clarifying that the repeal will not revive any jurisdiction, right, liability or other matter that is no longer in force.
• Section 4 provides that amendments made to other enactments through express omission, insertion or substitution by a repealed enactment will continue to remain effective where they were in force at the commencement of the Act.
[Notification No. - 6281/LA]
