(1) In the preparation of the Revised Edition the Commissioner-

(a) shall omit-

(i) all Acts or parts of Acts which have been expressly or specifically repealed or which have expired, become spent or ceased to have effect;

(ii) all repealing enactments contained in Acts and tables and all lists of repeated enactments whether contained in Schedules or otherwise,

(iii) all preambles to Acts where the Commissioner considers that the omission can conveniently be made;

(iv) all enactments prescribing the date on which an Act or part of an Act is to come into force where the Commissioner considers that the omission can conveniently be made;

(v) all amending Acts or parts of amending Acts where the Commissioner has incorporated the amendments in the Acts to which the amendments relate;

(vi) all enacting clauses;

(b) shall make adaptations of and amendments to Acts in order to bring those Acts into conformity with the Constitution of Ghana, 1992;

(c) may arrange any Act in such groups and sequence that may be convenient irrespective of the date of enactment;

(d) may alter-

(i) the order of sections in any Act and renumber the sections;

(ii) the form or arrangement of any sections by transferring words, by combining any sections or other sections or by dividing any sections into two or more subsections;

(e) may transfer an enactment contained in an Act from that Act to any other Act to which that enactment more properly belongs;

(f) may omit a chart, map or plan annexed to an Act;

(g) may divide Acts into parts or other suitable divisions;

(h) may alter the short title of an Act or add a short title to an Act which may require a short title;

(i) may redesignate Legal Notices as statutory instruments;

(j) may supply or add head notes;

(k) shall convert marginal notes to head notes;

(l) shall correct all grammatical, typographical and similar errors in the Acts and for that purpose the Commissioner may effect such alterations that are necessary whilst not affecting the meaning of any Act;

(m) may alter names, localities, offices, forms and methods in order to bring an Act into conformity with the circumstances of the country or the Commonwealth; and

(n) may do all other things relating to form and method that the Commissioner considers necessary to make perfect the Revised Edition.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of section 1, the Commissioner may omit from the Revised Edition any Act which is in force on 1st January, 1999, but which is repealed before the coming into force of the Revised Edition