63 259.  No  recommendation  is  made  to  change  the  purpose  and  functions  of  the Law Commission.  Even if the aspirations of the Law Commission Act have not been fully met, they remain highly desirable and it would be a retrograde step to dilute them.   Current Obstacles to Achieving the Statutory Purpose 260.  But  although  the  desirable  objectives  are  the  same,  the  obstacles  to  achieving those objectives are greater than they were when the Law Commission Act was enacted in 1985.  There are a number of subtle and interlocking causes for that situation and it is beyond the scope of this Report to unravel them.  But some need to be mentioned.    261.  There has been a tendency in New Zealand to regard some parts of the Statute Book as peculiarly lawyers’ law and peculi arly within the province of lawyers to decide  as  a  policy  matter.    That  probably  was  the  situation  in  the  past, particularly   with   the   part-time   Law   Reform   Committees   that   sat   with Government officials as their members as well.    262.  But it seems to the evaluator that there is almost nothing that is solely “lawyers' law” now, if there ever was. 263.  The process for making Government policy in the year 2000 is a great deal more complex and intricate than it was in 1985 and the years preceding it.  The entire public sector has been transformed since 1985, and the milieu in which the Law Commission operates is fundamentally different from that which it encountered when it started out.    264.  The process of policy analysis within the Executive Government in New Zealand is much more rigorous and sophisticated than it was in 1985.  The process now requires   policy   to   be   analysed   by   various   techniques   including   economic analysis, cost/benefit analysis and analysis of compliance costs that are imposed on businesses and the public by new legislative proposals.    265.  MMP  has  slowed  the  legislative  process  down  and  added  new  complexities  to securing parliamentary agreement to measures proposed by the Executive.