Law commission
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A law commission, law reform commission, or law revision commission is an independent body set up by a government to conduct law reform; that is, to consider the state of laws in a jurisdiction and make recommendations or proposals for legal changes or restructuring.
The first term is prevalent in the United Kingdom, the second is prevalent in the Commonwealth, and the third one is prevalent in the United States.[citation needed]
Work
[edit | edit source]The functions of a law commission body include drafting revised versions of confusing laws, preparing consolidated versions of laws, making recommendations on updating outdated laws and making recommendations on repealing obsolete or spent laws. Law commissions often undertake projects focusing on legislation, although their mandates may be narrower or broader.[1]
List of law commissions
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Australia: Australian Law Reform Commission
Bangladesh: Law Commission of Bangladesh
Canada: the Law Commission of Canada was established by the Law Commission of Canada Act on July 1, 1997 and was eliminated in 2006.[2] It replaced the Law Reform Commission of Canada, which was created in 1971 and was dissolved in 1993 by the Mulroney government. On September 25, 2006, funding to the Commission was eliminated by the Harper government.
- File:Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta: Alberta Law Reform Institute
- File:Flag of British Columbia.svg British Columbia: British Columbia Law Institute, formed to replace the British Columbia Law Reform Commission, which had been disbanded due to lack of funding
- File:Flag of Manitoba.svg Manitoba: Manitoba Law Reform Commission
- File:Flag of Nova Scotia.svg Nova Scotia: Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia
- File:Flag of Ontario.svg Ontario: Law Commission of Ontario[3]
- File:Flag of Quebec.svg Quebec: Institut québécois de réforme du droit et de la justice
- File:Flag of Saskatchewan.svg Saskatchewan: – Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan
- File:Flag of Cuba (1902–1906).svg Republic of Cuba: Advisory Law Commission of Cuba (1906 – 1909), established by the Provisional Government of Cuba to reform Spanish imperial law in Cuba[4]
- File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji: Fiji Law Reform Commission
- File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa: Samoa Law Reform Commission, established under the Law Reform Commission Act 2008
- File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong: Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong, established in 1980
- File:Flag of India.svg India: Law Commission of India
- File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland: The Law Reform Commission, established under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975
- File:Flag of Jersey.svg Jersey: Jersey Law Commission established by the States of Jersey in 1996
- File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius: Law Reform Commission of Mauritius established by the Law Reform Commission Act No. 26 of 2005
- File:Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal: Nepal Law Commission established by the Nepal Law Commissions Act 2007
- File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand: New Zealand Law Commission established by the Law Commission Act 1985
- File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria: Nigerian Law Reform Commission
- File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa: South African Law Reform Commission
- File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda: Uganda Law Reform Commission, established by Article 248 of the Ugandan Constitution
- File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
- England and Wales: The Law Commission
- Scotland: the Scottish Law Commission, established by the Law Commissions Act 1965 at the same time as the Law Commission in England and Wales
- Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Law Commission (formerly the Law Reform Advisory Committee) was established in 2007, but has been "non-operational" since 2015.[5]
- Other bodies concerned with law reform in the United Kingdom included the Law Revision Committee (1934 to 1939) and the Law Reform Committee (1952 - )[6]
- File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States: Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives
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See also
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