The British Shooting Sports Council has reacted cautiously, saying it supports "any endeavour which seeks to simplify and modernise firearms legislation, to make it more proportionate and easier for shooters, the police and the courts to understand, whilst maintaining its effectiveness".
The U.K. government has also said it intends to "modernise" surveillance legislation in a forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill.
Sir David Lloyd Jones, the chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales, and Lord Pentland, the chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, said: "[We] are committed to cleaning up and modernising our legislation.
Revising and modernising water legislation and strengthening the mechanisms for its implementation.
The following are some of the measures being taken by these countries: Revising and modernising water legislation and strengthening the mechanisms for its implementation.
In a new report, Keeping The Wheels Turning: Modernising The Legal Framework of Industrial Relations, the CBI outlined further measures it says would modernise employment relations legislation.
"We want to modernise the existing legislation (revision of Maternity leave directive, improving parental leave) and to adopt new EU directives on Paternity leave and Carers' leave", she added.
Patiently, he listed the political work ignored by the popular press: legislation modernising property ownership law, setting up national parks, dealing with the neglected rights of people incapacitated by illness and improving standards in schools is all under way.
There is both the need to modernise the existing EU legislation, to address shortcomings or lack of legislation in certain areas as well as to strengthen the coordination between Member States in order to ensure a level playing field regarding the costs and benefits of reconciliation policies.
(The relevant passage in the Queen's speech merely says that "new legislation will modernise the law on communications data").
