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Rh :::“(i) to change the order of sections or other provisions of an Act, and to number or renumber the sections or other provisions of an Act;
 * (ia) to make the following editorial changes to bring an Act in line, or more closely in line, with current legislative drafting practice:
 * (i) changes to spelling, punctuation, grammar or syntax, or the use of conjunctives and disjunctives;
 * (ii) changes to the way of referring to or expressing a number, year, date, time, amount of money or of other things, penalty, quantity, measurement or other matter, idea or concept;
 * (iii) changes to language that indicates or could be taken to indicate gender;”;
 * (e) by deleting the words “not affecting the meaning of any Act” in paragraph (l); and
 * (f) by inserting, immediately after the word “correct” in paragraph (n), the words “or update”.

Amendment of section 8

5. Section 8 of the principal Act is amended—
 * (a) by deleting paragraph (b) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
 * “(b) all Acts wholly or substantially in force on 31 December 2020, and any other Acts coming wholly or substantially into force after that date that the Commissioners think fit to include;”;
 * (b) by deleting the words “into so many Titles, Chapters and Parts” in subsection (2);