Finding statutes
The authoritative version of any statute is the Queen’s Printer’s copy published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Individual statutes are available from the Stationery Office and all statutes are published annually as Public and General Acts and Measures.
The real problem with the Queen’s Printer’s copy of a statute is that it will not be updated in the light of any amending legislation which Parliament may subsequently pass. It follows that the text of the Queen’s Printer’s copy of an Act may no longer be accurate when you refer to it.Two commercially published series, namely Current Law Statutes Annotated and Halsbury’s Statutes of England, provide annotations to the text, explaining the effect of the statute and its relationship to other relevant areas of Law. Halsbury’s Statutes also provides an updating service.
The most recently introduced means of accessing statutes is the UK Statute Law Database, which is mentioned under the next heading.
More on the topic Finding statutes:
- 6 Finding and Citing the Sources of Law
- Citing statutes
- Statutes
- Reading statutes
- 8 Reading Law Reports and Statutes
- Statute law and delegated legislation
- Introduction
- Having studied this chapter you should be able to explain:
- Statute books
- Introduction
- SUMMARY
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