49 Commission   Act   1990   (Tas)   the   Legal   Aid   Commission   may   make recommendations  to  the  Minister  with  respect  to  any  reforms  of  the  law  it considers desirable.  The Legal Aid Commission has set up various Committees to  help  achieve  this.    The  in-house  Law  Reform  Committee  liaises  with community  groups  and  other  lawyers  who  are  invited  to  suggest  areas  of  law which may require reform.    Nova Scotia 192.  The  Law  Reform  Commission  of  Nova  Scotia  (“Nova  Scotia  Commission”) was created in 1991 by the Government of Nova Scotia under the Law Reform Commission Act S.N.S. 1990.  The Nova Scotia Commission is an independent adviser  to  the  Government,  reporting  to  Parliament  through  the  Minister  of Justice  and  Attorney-General  for  Nova  Scotia.    But  it  is  not  a  Government Department. 193.  The Nova Scotia Commission is funded jointly by the Nova Scotia Department of Justice and the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia. 194.  The  previous  Nova  Scotia  Law  Reform  Advisory  Commission  (established 1969) had been allowed to lapse in 1981 when the terms of all the then sitting members expired.  William Hurlburt QC, in his book Law Reform Commissions in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada (1986), believes the reasons for its demise  were  “financial  stringency,  a  lack  of  common  approach  to  law  reform between  the  Commission  and  the  Attorney-General,  and  the  feeling  of  the Attorney-General  that  he  could  effect  through  his  department  whatever  law reform is necessary without being faced with reports from an entity which he did not control” (page 252). 195.  This background puts the provisions of the new Act relating to the composition and powers of the Nova Scotia Commission into perspective: ·   A  commissioner  whose  term  of  office  has  expired  may  be  re-appointed (section 5(5)).   ·   A commissioner whose term of office expires continues to hold office until a successor is appointed (section 5(6)).