 Discussions of the pragmatics of legal language are expressly or implicitly premised on a view of the relation between a law-making use of language, and the law that is made. It is the view that if an agency or a person is authorised to make law, it makes the law that it communicates by its use of  language.[3]  That ‘communication model’ must be qualified in at least four ways, because the law itself regulates the making of law: