Analysis of Report Card 296.  The  report  card  reveals  a  number  of  features.    Forty-six  major  Reports  have been produced by the Law Commission.  Some of these are massive, like the reference on the Companies Act⁵⁹ and the Law of Evidence.⁶⁰  Others are small, like the project on Retirement Villages⁶¹ or the Report on Aspects of Damages: The Award of Interest on Money Claims.⁶²    297.  It  is  significant  that  a  number  of  these  Reports  were  not  designed  to  produce legislation.    There  are  eight  Reports  in  that  category.  However,  four  of  these Reports have nevertheless produced reform of some sort, either by changes to the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives, changes to Parliamentary Counsel drafting style, or influence over related legislation. 298.  Of  the  remaining  Reports,  the  evaluator’s  judgment  is  that  18  have  made changes  ranging  from  minor  to  major  to  the  New  Zealand  Statute  Book.    A further 20 Reports have recommended new legislation but no legislation has yet been passed by the Government. It is recognised that the Government has not had sufficient time to consider and implement some of the Law Commission’s recent Reports which also fall into this category, and a further four Reports in this  category  would  be  implemented  if  Bills  currently  on  the  Order  Paper  of Parliament are passed. 299.  Overall,  the  Law  Commission  has  an  implementation  rate  for  its  Reports  of approximately 48 percent. Some of the legislative achievements are laws of the first rank in importance, but others are relatively minor matters. 300.  The  conclusion  that  must  be  reached  is  that  the  strike  rate  of  the  Law Commission in getting significant law reform enacted on the Statute Book has not been high, and it probably has not been high enough to justify the expenditure  of  public  moneys  on  the  Commission.    An  average  of  one                                                  59   NZLC R9,  Company Law: Reform and Restatement (1989) and NZLC R16,  Company Law Reform: Transition and Revision (1990). 60   NZLC R55, Evidence (three volumes) (1999). 61   NZLC R57, Retirement Villages (1999). 62   NZLC R28, Aspects of Damages: The Award of Interest on Money Claims (1994).