AS part of its modernisation process, the Fijian Government will revise the laws of Fiji.

Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said the laws of Fiji were last consolidated in 1985.

“For 30 years, we’ve had a few thousand pieces of amendments and new laws have been introduced,” he said.

Within a few weeks, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum assured that businesses would be able to buy the 20 volumes revised law at a very low and competitive price.

“The revised law will have annotations, history of the legislations, and history of the amendments that now have been amended,” he said.

“It has a subject area and also the subsidiary legislations that are built into that.”

“You don’t actually have to wait for every 10 years for this to be upgraded,” he said.

If there is an amendment to an Act, he said, people would be notified, once subscribed, of the change once Parliament approved to replace the particular change.

This will be available online for a fee, but Fijian citizens can access it for free. The revised law would benefit lawyers, businesses, foreign investors and the general public as a whole.

Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said they were proud of this because this had been a long-time coming.

The revised version will be launched soon.