LAW REFORM

• Consolidation of statutes means an Act of the Parliament which collects and states all the
statutory provisions relating to a specified subject of law. it does not contain any case laws in
it. The purpose of the consolidating statute is to present the whole body of statutory law on a
subject in complete form repealing the former statutes.
Examples: (1) Arbitration and Conciliation Act ,1996 – An Act to consolidate the law on
Arbitration in India - Arbitration Act 1940, Arbitration (Protocol and Convention) Act,1937,
Foreign Awards (Recognition and Enforcement) Act1961. (2) The Code of Criminal Procedure
1973.
• On the other hand, Codification of the statute means an Act which exhaustively states the
provisions related to a particular subject of law. Under codification the pre-existing provisions
and case laws are also referred.
• Hindu Marriage Act , 1955 -An act to amend and codify the law relating
to marriage among Hindus. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixth Year of the Republic of
India as follows:—
• The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the official criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code
intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law.
• There are four main methods of reforming the law: (a) repeal
(removal or reversal of a law), (b) creation of new law, (c)
consolidation (combination of a number of laws into one) and (d)
codification (collection and systematic arrangement, usually by
subject, of the laws of a state or country)