Definition
The expression "law reform" is used in a number of senses and some of these are close to being wholly incompatible with each other.
In the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, the expression "reform" includes, in relation to the law or a branch of the law, its development, its codification (including in particular its simplification and modernisation) and the revision and consolidation of statute law, and kindred words must be construed accordingly.
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