⁷⁹(1932) NZLJ 300, 302.      80 Section 29A of the Evidence Act 1908. 57 Consolidations with amendments, complete redraftings, and pure compilations, of lengthy Acts, numbering nearly seventy in all, have been passed within the last twelve years.⁷⁹ 113 Since 1932, statutes have been reprinted with their amendments incorporated and are prima facie evidence of the law made by the reprinted legislation.⁸⁰ Reprints are exactly that, reprints not re-enactments, and they are compiled with minimal change. They are not consolidations. In the Foreword to the 1931 Reprint, the then Chief Justice,   Sir   Michael   Myers,   suggested   that   the   idea   of   another   full-scale consolidation was considered but rejected as too ambitious because of the need to involve  people  with  legal  knowledge  and  drafting  skills.  He  also  refers  to  the advantages  of  a  reprint  in  not  presenting  “the  gr ave  danger  of  the  law  being unintentionally altered” in the course of consolidation. 114 In the United Kingdom, the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act 1949 (apparently  passed  at  the  suggestion  of  former  First  Parliamentary  Counsel  Sir Granville Ram) enables consolidations that make to existing law “correc tions and minor improvements”, defined by section 2 of the Act as— amendm ents  of  which   the  effect  is  confined  to  resolving  ambiguities,  remov ing  doub ts, bringing    obso lete    pro visions    into    conformity    with    modern    practice,    or    removing unnecessary   provisions   or   anomalies   which   are   not   of   substantive   importance,   and amendm ents designed to facilitate im provement in the form  or manner in which  the law is stated. 115 Consolidation  Bills  including  amendments  under  the  1949  Act  have  a  special procedure. A joint select committee of both Houses considers these Bills to ensure amendments in them are not important enough to be separately enacted. Further, as