3.2 Because of the many changes made to the Bill as introduced into Parliament, the Department was required to revisit the Schedule to the Bill containing consequential amendments to other Acts of Parliament. During this process the Department identified numerous provisions on the Statute Book requiring synchronisation with the Bill under discussion. Many of the statutory provisions requiring amendment in order to bring them into line with the Bill are straight-forward and can be amended without further ado and have in fact been amended, giving rise to a schedule considerably longer than the one contained in the introduced Bill. There is, however, another category of statutory provisions which were identified as possibly requiring amendments. These provisions, particularly those which are administered by Departments other than the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, require further investigation and consultation. Since the Bill can be finalised and implemented without effecting this particular category of amendments, the Committee has decided to keep them in abeyance pending further investigation. The Committee consequently requests the Department to - (a) approach the Departments in question to revisit the statutes administered by them and identified by the Committee with the view to aligning them, where necessary, with the legislation under discussion; and (b) report back to the Committee on whether the provisions do in fact need to be amended in order to align them with the legislation under discussion.