Removal of secondary legislation is normally referred to as revocation rather than repeal in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Under the common law of England and Wales, the effect of repealing a statute was "to obliterate it completely from the records of Parliament as though it had never been passed.
In parliamentary procedure, the motion to rescind, repeal, or annul is used to cancel or countermand an action or order previously adopted by the assembly.
For example, the repeal of the Poor Laws in England in 1948 reflected their replacement by modern social welfare legislation.
To repeal any element of an enacted law, Congress must pass a new law containing repeal language and the codified statute's location in the U.S. Code (including the title, chapter, part, section, paragraph and clause).
When statutes are repealed, their text is simply deleted from the Code and replaced by a note summarizing what used to be there.
[3] As past and future parliaments are equally sovereign, later parliaments can carry out implied repeal of earlier statute by passing an inconsistent statute, but inconsistency needs to be established before implied repeal can occur.
In England and Wales, sections 15 to 17 and 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 set out general savings for all repeals.
In meetings of a deliberative assembly, the motions to rescind (or "repeal" or "annul") and amend something previously adopted are used to change action that was taken.
[12] The motion to rescind and expunge from the minutes is used to express the strongest disapproval about action previously taken by a deliberative assembly.
Using Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised, this motion requires a vote of a majority of the entire membership.