New Labour Laws

[antijoke]

News Story from Yahoo.

Britons are forbidden from disturbing packs of eggs and from selling game killed on a Sunday, it was revealed by an opposition MP who condemned ministers for introducing ridiculous laws. Skip related content

The day after Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government laid out its legislative agenda for the coming year, Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne noted the stream of sometimes "completely bizarre" new offences it had created.

Since the Labour party took power in 1997 under then prime minister Tony Blair, it has created 3,600 new criminal offences, Huhne said -- adding this was "massively complicating" the job of police and the criminal justice system.

"Some of these offences are completely bizarre -- for example, the offence of causing a nuclear explosion," he told members of parliament (MPs) on Thursday.

"The idea that anyone might cause a nuclear explosion without killing anybody, and therefore being subject to a possible charge of murder, is extremely far-fetched."

Other new offences include "wilfully pretending to be a barrister", "disturbing a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer" and "offering for sale a game bird killed on a Sunday or Christmas day", he said.

Huhne accused the government of doing nothing to repeal these laws. Justice Secretary Jack Straw asked for a full list of the ones the MP wanted removed from the statute books so that he could review them.

How funny. The best one has to be the offence for causing a nuclear explosion.

Would like a list of all the laws passed by the oh so wonderful Labour government.

 

[greywolf]

Would like a list of all the laws passed by the oh so wonderful Labour government.

Aren't they great

 

[Tefal]

"disturbing a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer"

Anyone else think this might be for Halloween...



And when did that game killed on a Sunday come into law?

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Link?

 

[antijoke]

Thats literally the whole article with no more details.

link

 

[Cosimo]

Not good enough, we want to see the full list.

 

[antijoke]

A few more here

I like this one

Land a catch at a harbour that includes unsorted fish without permission

I also find this amusing, I wonder how long they have spent debating this at a (presumably) cost to the tax payer

They comprise 1,238 brought in as primary legislation, which means they were debated in Parliament.

 

[Greebo]

Here's some more of them:

Obstruct workers carrying out repairs to the Dockland Light Railway (The offence is created under legislation designed to boost capacity on the DLR in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics in London).


Attach an ear tag to an animal when it has previously been used to identify another animal (A regulation introduced last year to tighten up identification of cattle).

Land a catch at a harbour that includes unsorted fish without permission (Regulations two years ago controlling fish taken from seas around Britain).
Fail to use an approved technique for weighing herring, mackerel and horse mackerel (Banned under the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006).

Allow an unlicensed concert in a church hall or community centre (The 2003 Licensing Act introduced a maximum penalty of six months' prison for breaking the law).

 

[antijoke]

Not good enough, we want to see the full list.

I am dying for someone to find them all.

 

[MarcLister]

I am dying for someone to find them all.

I'm afraid this is illegal now. The offence of dying for someone to list a list of things now carries a sentence of 18 months.

 

[Greebo]

ANother one:

"illegal to sell a grey squirrel"

I reckon a lot of them are boring though. I found a link which states that 632 related to Foot and Mouth during the ourbreak and are now unused.

227 relate to the Foreign Office and Un Sanctions in Iraq so they will be really boring.