ID

[liadnan]

Intriguing article in El Reg picking up on a story in the Observer that people around Gordon Brown are seriously floating what has been thought of as the paranoid nightmare of ID cards: ultimate function creep whereby every electronic transaction in the UK would be linked to ID - and thence to loyalty card schemes.

With any luck this will be what kills the whole idea.

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[liadnan]

Off the top of my head I think repeal is a term of art about what you do to statutes: a repealed statute is of no effect [usually] from the date of repeal. Revoked is to be interpreted as an ordinary english word, and would also be used in respect of, say, statutory instruments. (It may also have the connotation that the revoked instrument is to be taken as never having effect, whereas a repealed statute continues to have effect with regard to matters before the repeal unless the contrary is specifically stated.)

I may not be entirely correct on this, and there may be some more precise distinction but it isn't coming to mind at present.