103    While post-legislative scrutiny may be difficult and expensive, it is impossible to see  why  it  should  not  be  carried  out.    How  much  do  we  really  know  about  the effects of all the laws that have been passed?  In a rational society committed to the rule of law, even in a post-modern world, we should know more. Passing more legislation without knowing is like whistling in the dark.  It seems to combine the worst features of both modernity and post-modernism.    Conclusion 104    The  time  has  come  to  draw  the  strands  of  this  paper  together  and  state  the conclusions.  I am here endeavouring to find a way of implementing some of the important goals contained in the Law Commission’s statute. 105    The bulk of legislation and its various forms poses a problem to the coherence of the legal system as well as access to its principles and rules.  Attention needs to be given to providing some overall coherence and imposing a pattern on the statute book, so that it is both orderly and accessible.  This will require changes in the way we present our laws, and changes in the way we index them.    106    When renovating the shape of our statute book and the methods governing access to  it,  attention  needs  to  be  given  to  both  statutory  regulations  and  deemed regulations, so that it is apparent what delegated legislation has been made under the authority of the primary law.  This object is by no means as simple to achieve as it is to state. 107    In considering the balance between primary legislation and delegated legislation, greater  effort  has  to  be  made  to  determine  what  is  appropriate  for  delegated legislation and what is not.  At present we have no clear bright line rule in New Zealand about the proper balance. Securing one will require a lot of intellectual effort.    108    The temptation to download a lot of policy into regulations and other delegated legislation, needs to be carefully controlled by Parliament.  We must not return to the  days  when  delegated  legislation  was  out  of  control.    We  need  to  pay  more attention to the balance between different forms of legislation.  If it is too difficult to pass primary legislation, resort will be had to delegated legislation, regulations, 31