0 present participle of repeal
1 If a government repeals a law, it causes that law no longer to have any legal force.
Tens of thousands of electors might be added to or subtracted from a constituency, simply by imposing or repealing the small tenements act.
This prevents us from repealing the potentially conflicting rules, thus creating a continuous source of indeterminacy.
There was concern over a proposed constitutional amendment repealing the one-term limit for governors.
One year later, however, voters approved an initiative repealing the new law.
A tendency to leave the letter 't' uncrossed caused confusion: 'repeating' becomes 'repealing'!
We concluded that we could achieve our purpose more simply by repealing section 13(3).
I should have thought that they would be inclined to keep the provision rather than repealing it.
This is not varying the details of something that has already been authorised; this is repealing, modifying or adapting an enactment.
