Legistaion Reform

Issues in law effectiveness	Design issue Capacity constraints Corruption Near absence of post legislative evaluation
Some step taken	Mandatory public consultation before Identifying laws need to be Repealed

Indian penal code	Section 377, 124A, 497(punishes man for adultery and exempts women), 375(places sexual intercourse between husband and wife outside the definition of rape) and many others
Based upon	Victorian morality and imperial logic
	SC have been given the task to reconcile this Victorian morality and imperial logic with the progressive constitutional values i.e. reconciling the irreconcilable.
Comprehensive relook is needed	Problems with IPC cannot be solved in a piecemal manner by taking isolated section of the code and attempting to modernise them This is not a task that judiciary can accomplish, it is legislature to take comprehensive relook at the IPC in its 156 year histroy anf refom it It must be based on individual autonomy, freedom of speech and conscience and equality
International	In 2003 criminal law of the UK comprehensively reviewed and changed via Criminal Justice Act

Benefits of post legislative evaluation	Whether the law have achieved its objectives Reason for its poor performance Objective study will help policy maker to amend the law Judicial burden will be less Will increase the effectiveness of laws From Reactive approach to Proactive Response
Challenges	Setting the benchmark of evaluation Procedure of scrutiny Body that should undertake Time period of scrutiny Types of legislation that requires scrutiny
International practices	Australia After two year and expires after 10 years Canada most laws reviewed and has sunset clause France, mandatory and enshrined within itself UK required laws to be reviewed within three to five years of enactment. These reviews are conducted by existing Departmental Select Committees on the basis of a memoranda provided by a government department
Present mechanism of amendment	NDPS Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic Substance Act, 1985 amended three times, each time initiative taken be activist and lawyers based on anecdotal evidence and independent research rather than objective studies based on Data.