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The revised legislation on legislation.gov.uk is the official revised version of the statute book for the UK in electronic form. ('The statute book' is a term we use to mean all the primary...
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4 days ago · Within the 'Provision Details', the ‘Table of Amendments’ allows you to view previous versions of the provision. Alternatively, select the version in the bar to the right of the text of the provision (e.g. Version 5) to view previous versions.
- Primary Legal Materials - Acts of Parliament
- Hard Copy Resources For UK Legislation
- Halsbury's Statutes
- Halsbury's Statutes Citator
- Halsbury's Is It in Force?
- Current Law Statutes Annotated & The Current Law Legislation Citator
- Statutory Instruments
- EU Legislation Online Sources
This page discusses sources for current UK and EU Legislation: This includes legislation.gov.uk, Lexis+ UK, Westlaw and Eurlex as well as various hard copy sources. For a refresher on legislation, see Legislationin the Overview.
This section provides information about finding current and recent legislation, statutory instruments, and about researching old legislation using hard copy sources. As most of this type of research can be done more quickly in legal databases, some of the sources listed below are no longer kept up to date. There are several printed sources of full ...
Halsbury's Statutes;is the only printed source of all current Acts of Parliament that incorporates repeals and amendments into the text of the act. It also includes notes about each Act, details about when it came into force, amendments and repeals, interpretations and important cases that have interpreted relevant sections of the Act in court. Imm...
The Statutes Citator as a companion volume to Halsbury's Statutes. Halsbury's Statutes Citatordoes not give the full text or even a summary of Acts of parliament. However, it details all amendments and repeals to acts (section by section) and lists cases which have interpreted the Act in court. It is therefore an extremely useful reference tool if ...
Halsbury's also publishes Is it in Force?This is useful for finding out whether or not a section of an Act is in force, when it came into force or when it will come into force. An online equivalent to Is it in Force? is available as part of Lexis Library. The hard copy is shelved at Cw UK 080 I73 on the main floor of the Bodleian Law Library (note ...
Current Law Statutes Annotated, which is published by Sweet & Maxwell, is an alphabetical list of all statutes published each year. It prints the text of all UK public and private Acts as originally published. You should note that the text is not updated to include any amendments or repeals so that when you use Current Law Statutes Annotated you ar...
As with Acts of Parliament, there are several sources of hard copy Statutory Instruments. The Stationery Office publishes Statutory Instruments. At the end of each year, annual volumes containing reprints of general instruments are compiled and published. From 1890 to 1960 the annual volumes of instruments were arranged by subject, but since 1961 t...
The Eurlexdatabase provides all EU legislation and treaties. It can be searched by document name or number, or browsed by subject. Justis, Lexis+ UK and Westlaw all draw legislation from this database, and present it via EU search interfaces. The Eurlex 'bibliographic notice' provides relevant information about amendments, national implementation a...
You can use Compare Versions while viewing the section currently in effect, an archived version, or a future effective version. For legislation, you can use Compare Versions while viewing any version of the bill.
Here are some techniques we can use. One is to use the language of the statute itself, to alert the reader to the presence of common law beyond the page.
Dec 31, 2020 · How legislation works. UK Primary and Secondary legislation. 'Primary legislation' is the term used to describe the main laws passed by the legislative bodies of the UK e.g. Acts of the UK...
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An examination of the whole of a statute, or at least those Parts which deal with the subject matter of the provision to be interpreted, should give some indication of the overall purpose of the legislation.
