a Bill the purpose of which is to restate the existing law, whether or not with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Scottish Law Commission or of the Scottish Law Commission and the Law Commission jointly

a measure which brings together a number of acts that deal with the same subject in a single Act of Parliament

a bill that seeks to draw together several previous enactments on a subject. In the Commons, the second and third readings are taken without debate.

A bill whose purpose is to restate the law, with or without amendment, based on recommendations of the Scottish Law Commission or of the commission and its England and Wales counterpart jointly. Such bills are subject to a special form of legislative process (rule 9.18).

A consolidation bill is a bill introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom with the intention of consolidating several Acts of Parliament and/or Statutory Instruments into one Act. Such bills simplify the statute book without significantly changing the state of the law, and are subject to an expedited Parliamentary procedure. Consolidation bills are introduced in the House of Lords which, by convention, has primacy in these matters.