Ensure the proper administration of law, order and justice through management and control of the lower Courts, the Probation and Parole Service, State Prisons, the registration of land transactions, deeds and births, deaths and marriages, and the provision of legal advice and conveyancing services. The Law Department was created by amalgamating the Attorney-General's, Registrar-General's and Prisons Departments with the Corporate Affairs Office (of the Supreme Court and Sheriff's Department) and the staff of the Solicitor-General's Department. The Solicitor-General did not join the new department until created a statutory officer on 29 June. The Adult Probation and Parole Service, which had been part of the Atorney-General's Department since 1946, was re-united with the prison administration, becoming the Corrective Services Division on 6 April 1987. As part of a general reorganisation of the Tasmanian State Service on 17 July 1989 the Law Department was amalgamated with the Supreme Court and Sheriff's department to create the Department of Justice. At the same time some of the functions of the Law Department were transferred elsewhere. The Registrar-General's Division, though not the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, was transferred to the Department of Environment and Planning. The Corrective Services Division and the Child Protection Assessment Board Secretariat were transferred to the Department of Community Services.~