Definitions for "Consolidation bill"
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.