Strange Ossified laws- CtoReview Laws

The Government recently formed a committee headed by R. Ramanujam, Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office to re-examine all Acts recommended to be repealed by the committee on Review of Administrative Laws appointed by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1998.  The panel has been asked to submit a report within three months which will be discussed during the Winter Session of Parliament.
The Urban Development Ministry has identified a law from 1949 that empowers the Government to force hotels in Delhi to provide rooms to it on demand, and to reserve at least 20 per cent of rooms for Government guests.
Take for instance, the Appropriation Bills where no follow up action has been taken. These Bills give authority to the government to spend from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India. Nearly 700 Appropriation Acts are pending for the past several years.
Among the archaic laws, experts point out, is the Vagrancy Act under which anyone can be booked for strolling in frayed clothing.  The person can be booked for "loitering with intent" under the Act.
Revision Law commissions had from time to time recommended doing away with laws that no longer had any relevance or use.	The P.C. Jain Commission, which had gone into the subject, had recommended repeal of nearly 1,400 laws, but many of them continue to remain valid.
Even the Ministry of Minority Affairs, which was set up only in 2005, has discovered that a slip during the drafting of the Wakf (Amendment) Act 2013 - which was notified, last September 2013 - has allowed the Musalman Wakf Validating Acts of 1913 and 1930 to stay valid to date.
Yet another sample is the East Punjab Agricultural Pets, Diseases and Noxious Weeds Act, under which men can be dragooned into beating warning drums if locust invasions seem imminent.
The laws enacted with the specific aim of dealing with the Partition continue to be in force.
According to legal experts, there is a need for periodic revision of laws so that those which have become useless can be repealed.  A suggestion that needs to be considered is to let Parliament and state legislatures specify a period of validity for any law, say 20 or 30 years, after which it will lapse.