Away with eighty years of legislative acts, something like thirty thousand rules. A massive repeal in charge of the Chamber of Deputies, dealing with a bill which provides for the suppression of numerous provisions dating back to the pre-republican era (1861-1946). Overall, the repealed provisions are more than 30.000. These are royal decrees, formal laws, royal decree-laws, royal legislative decrees, lieutenant decrees, lieutenant legislative decrees, lieutenant decree-laws, decrees of the Head of Government and decrees of the Duce of Fascism, Head of Government. The provision reaches the chamber after a meticulous work lasting 10 months by the Constitutional Affairs Committee.
It starts with therepeal of the royal decrees of the years of the period 1861-1870; to move on to those of the period 1871-1890 and some additions relating to the years 1862, 1864, 1866, 1867 and 1869. Then we move on to the royal decrees up to 1920 and then to the period 1921-1946 as well as additions relating to the year 1910.
Then it's up to the pre-republican acts to be repealed, other than royal decrees. In particular pre-republican laws (1861-1946), royal decree-laws, royal legislative decrees; the lieutenant decrees for the years 1915-1918 and 1919-1946; the lieutenant legislative decrees and the lieutenant decree-laws; a decree of the Head of Government; finally the decrees of the Duce of Fascism, Head of Government.
The repeal intervention has been made necessary from the huge stock of legislation: in the Italian legal system, from 1861 to 12 April 2023 (date of the last survey by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) 204.272 acts having normative value were adopted and, of these, 94.062 were expressly repealed.
The measures abolished
But what is being abolished? with this measure to the attention of the deputies? Let's see some examples: royal decrees approving the institution or suppression of grain monti, which authorize municipalities to establish a duty or impose/collect a tax or modify the rate of a duty; which approve or modify the statutes of banks, popular banks and savings banks; the lieutenant decree of 11 February 1917 with which the Administration of the public debt is authorized to issue 5% national loan bonds; the royal decree of 12 March 1936, which provides for the recognition as public law banks of the "Banca Commerciale Italiana", the "Credito Italiano" and the "Banco di Roma" and that of 31 October 1923 on the classification of elementary schools and transformation of the schools themselves with poor performance; the law of 1 July 1940, n. 899 establishing the Middle School (wanted by Bottai and approved by the Grand Council of Fascism, ed.); royal decrees that intervene on matters of transport companies. (for example the one authorizing the Societé Generale des Tramways - a Belgian company with headquarters in Brussels - to operate in the Kingdom of Italy); royal decrees that establish mandatory consortia for land reclamation in the Roman countryside. Then the decrees of the Duce: corporate rules for the regulation of the compensation of artistic personnel employed in the production of "filmi", for the regulation of the production of regenerated leather, economic agreements for the production and sale of silkworm seed. Finally the decree of the head of government dated 17 November 1938, regarding the collective economic agreement for the relationship of agencies and commercial representation