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• Spring cleaning the statute book: it's not just old laws that should go
  Posted on April 11, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Easter Sunday, along with Christmas and birthdays, is the only day you are allowed to eat chocolate for breakfast. It’s not a very enforceable rule and not one, as far as I know, defined by statute, but it’s a rule nonetheless. Unlike the supposed law banning eating mince pies on Christmas day, which is, as with many of the most amusing examples of stupid laws, an urban myth. 
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  Posted in: Rule of Law
  Tagged: bad law, government, LASPO, Law Commission, legislation, parliament, regulations, secondary legislation, statutory instrument, stupid laws