ABSTRACT
After reading and digesting the Drafting Instructions, after Parliamentary Counsel has mastered the subject matter of the proposed legislation, the next important step in the drafting process is the preparation of the legislative scheme. Upon that scheme hangs the quality of the Bill. The legislative scheme represents Counsel’s mental picture of how well the Act of Parliament would look in structure and quality, in substance and in form. Here Parliamentary Counsel deals with the logical sequence of the various matters that bear upon the Bill; here the symmetrical arrangement of sections is organised.
