"Many elements of the Clinton bill are similar to pieces of previous legislation," he said.

The number of registered churches fell from over 300 under previous legislation to 32.

It replaced almost all previous legislation and laid the foundations for the current education systems.

There were to be 613 such constituencies, in place of the 591 under previous legislation.

As under the previous legislation there are six libraries entitled to printed works.

The previous legislation was largely replaced by the 1999 changes, which were retrospective in effect.

But previous legislation keeps Constellation contracts in force until a new funding bill is passed for 2011.

The Act established local government areas based on those already created by previous legislation.

We have always done things that way in previous legislation, too.

The new regulation before us certainly represents progress compared with previous legislation.