legislative drafter. Further, guidance notes, in italics in brackets, have been inserted into the Model Law to guide the legislative drafter on specific issues. The Model Law, therefore, does not conform to individual Member States’ form, style or structure of legislation, for example, it will not have a long title or short title. Member States will have to adapt the provisions of the law into appropriate national form, style and structure when adapting or adopting the contents of the Model Law as national laws. The Model Law is formatted and structured using general conventional practices as reflected in the SADC Model Law on HIV/AIDS, as follows:  tables of contents;  Preamble;  Part headings;  section headings;  subsections;  paragraphs;  sub-paragraphs;  logical order of sections; and  numbering of text using Greek numerals. These conventional practices help facilitate communication of the extent of the law, Part or section of the law. The division of the Model Law into Parts enables similar or related provisions to be put together for comprehensibility but the Parts are supportive of each other thus making the Law a cohesive whole. The use of cross-referencing helps achieve the cohesiveness of the Law. These conventional practices have become quite uniform throughout the SADC Region, with small variations, for example use of marginal notes as opposed to section heads, use of chapters as opposed to parts or use of roman numerals as opposed to Greek numerals. 5.0 PARTS OF THE MODEL LAW The Model Law address five main thematic areas, reflected in the Part heading, and sub-thematic areas, reflected in the sections and subsections, relating to the eradication and prevention of child marriage and protecting Page 7 of 78