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Zanzibar Law Review Commission

Zanzibar City, Tanzania
Joined April 2019

Takes and keeps under review all the laws of Zanzibar with a view to its systematic development and reform

Presence in: Tanzania
Focus: Other

Zanzibar Law Review Commission is established under section 3 of The Law Review Commission of Zanzibar Act  No.16/1986.

The main function of the commission is to take and keep under review all the law of Zanzibar with a view to its systematic development and reform;

Others; (a) consider and advise on proposal for the adoption of new or more effective methods of administration of the law and dispensation of justice

(b) review any law or branch of the law and propose measures necessary (1) bringing that law or branch of the law in accord with current circumstances of Zanzibar (2) Eliminating anomalies or other defects in the law, repealing obsolete or unnecessary laws and reducing the number of separate enactments (3) the proper modification and simplification, of that law or branch of law