Legislative Drafting
Maharashtra National Law University, Aurangabad · LL.B. Semester 9
Unit I — Basic Principles of Legislative Drafting
Nature of Legislative Drafting, Role of Legislature in social change, Kinds of Legislature, Primary and Secondary, Process of Legislation making: An overview.
Unit II — Drafting: Language, Tools and Technique
Sentences to be used for Legislative Drafting, Constitutional Law and Legislative Drafting: Inter-relation and precaution, Order of legislative sentences, Stages of Legislative Drafting.
Unit III — Legislative Draft Structure
Structure of Legislation, Common Phrases, Structuring Legislative Text, Limits on Legislative Drafting.
Unit IV — Legislative Drafting and Interpretation of Statutes
Theories of Statutory Interpretation, Tools and Aids of Interpretation, Consideration of Rules, International Standards and Committee Reports.
- The Interpretation of Statutes
- Legislative Material — Internal Aids — Parts of a statute and their function in interpretation of a statute — Short and long titles, preamble, schedules, marginal headings, parts, and their captions, chapters and their
- Rules of interpretation of Statutes — Literal, Mischief and Golden rule of interpretation