3.2 External Aids

3.2.1 Historical Setting: the enactment's context — the times'-and-mischief's history (the social-and-legal background: the evil the Act addressed); the craft: the setting's use to inform the meaning (the mischief rule's historical companion); the Nepal examples (the conflict-era statutes' context; the transitional-justice instruments' setting). 3.2.2 Parliamentary History: the legislative process' record — the bill's journey's materials (the drafting documents, the committee reports, the debates-and-minutes, the statements in the House); the admissibility debate: the common-law's traditional exclusion (the "what the legislature said" not "what the ministers meant" — the Hansard's old bar) vs the modern-and-comparative admission (the Pepper v. Hart line's conditions (the UK's admission where the ambiguity-plus-the-clear-statement)); the Nepal practice (the parliamentary-committee reports' use — the Constituent-Assembly's-and-Parliament's records' citation in the constitutional cases); the honest audit: the history's weight (the persuasive-not- conclusive status). 3.2.3 International Conventions: the treaties' interpretive role — the international-law presumption's companion (Unit 6.5): the ambiguous statute read consistently with the treaties (the VCLT's interpretation rules as the borrowed craft); the unincorporated treaties' status (the interpretive aid despite the non-domestication — the consistent-reading's presumption); the Nepal practice (the human-rights treaties' citation culture — the CEDAW-and- CRC citations in the rights cases; the Treaty Act 2047's domesticated-treaties' priority); the growing craft (the international-law's consultation as the modern judge's discipline). 3.2.4 Dictionaries and Books: the language's authorities — the dictionaries'…