1.—In this Act—

“the Commission” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3;

“Commissioner” means a person appointed to be the President or other member of the Commission;

“the law” means the law of the State (including any private or public international law) and includes matters of legal practice or procedure and law shall be construed accordingly;

F1[‘judicial office’, except where the context otherwise requires, means an office, being the office of President of the Court of Appeal, President of the High Court, ordinary judge of the Supreme Court, ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal or ordinary judge of the High Court;]

“reform” includes, in relation to the law or a branch of the law, its development, its codification (including in particular its simplification and modernisation) and the revision and consolidation of statute law, and kindred words shall be construed accordingly.