A "remedial enactment" is one which improves and facilitates remedy al­ready existing for the enforcement of an exis­ting right and for the redress of wrongs or in­juries, as well as to correct defects, mistakes and omissions in a former law.

( Osman Gani Mondal Vs. Mainuddin Ahmed and others, 1974, 3 CLC (AD) [1585] )