219:'Change to Legislation' – Much work has been done in order to make the revised legislation as usable as possible although it is not fully up to date. The development of the new site has allowed us to take the 'Tables of Legislative Effects' information currently published on SLD and incorporate the 'unapplied effects' into the content of the legislation at the provision level. This means that instead of having to look through the 'Tables of Effects' year by year in order to establish the current position of a piece of legislation, one can access all the outstanding effects when viewing the act. The outstanding effects also include links to the affecting legislation meaning that one can view the amendments more easily.
202:, which meant the responsibility for the Office of Public Sector Information and SLD websites became the responsibility of one department. A major consideration of the transfer was to enable the rationalization of the two websites in order to provide one point of access to all UK legislation and in doing so reduce duplication in effort, increase efficiency (for example taking advantage of technological developments to streamline processes) and provide a more user-friendly and accessible service across the board. Since December 2008 a considerable amount of work has taken place to look at who the customers of the joint services are and look carefully at their requirements.
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that are being updated by the editorial team that is available on SLD but will not be available on the new site until the revisions are complete and they are ready to be published to SLD and the new website. Many of the revised documents held by SLD are also available in the OPSI dataset as an "as enacted" version. The new website combines these so one can switch between the different versions.
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Database. These options include free
Internet access, the granting of non-exclusive licences to legal information publishers and the provision of a subscription on-line service." In September a demonstration version of the database was made available on the Syntegra Track Record website, containing legislation for the years 1985 to 1995, though this was quickly removed.
135:. Established in the early 2000s, it contains all primary legislation in force since 1267 and all secondary legislation since 1823; it does not include legislation which was fully repealed prior to 1991. The contents have been revised to reflect legislative changes up to 2002, with material that has been amended since 2002 fully updated and searchable.
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Statutory Instruments", published on 7 November 2006, recommended that the database should be extended to cover secondary as well as primary legislation. The government responded that this was indeed important, but that "he immediate priority is to ensure that a fully revised
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Statutory Publications Office Intranet. The Lord Chancellor's Department are considering options for the future marketing of the Statute Law
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noted in 1992, "t present the accessibility of statute law to users and the wider public is slow, inconvenient, complicated and subject to several impediments. To put it bluntly, it is often very difficult to find out what the text of a law is – let alone what it means. Something must be done."
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issued after 1823, some 80,000 texts. All primary legislation on the site has been revised to show the effect of legislation and amendments enacted until 2002. The database is not fully up to date and, as of 2009, there is no estimate for when it will be fully up to date. Acts are targeted for
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which allows editors to check documents in and out of the database for editing. All the legislation from the original SGML database was converted into XML. After the editorial system was completed, further development began on a new online
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together with all amendments made since a "base date" of 1 February 1991. The database was delivered by
Syntegra in November 1993, but not accepted by the government until Summer 1995 at a cost of £700,000. The database was originally intended for use by the
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and up to date version of the official statute book is delivered for use by the public and that work on this is maintained. After this has been achieved consideration will then be given as to how work can be extended to updating secondary legislation."
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October that the system would be free to use. The SPO's Clare Allison revealed nevertheless that the DCA would be "looking at options that concern the commercial reuse of the data".
393:(DCA) commenced the second stage of the database project, allowing the system to be tested in use by issuing login details and passwords to a wide range of selected customers including government users, law librarians, police staff,
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1000:"The Statute Law Database – finally a reality"
676:Also the database does not currently include:
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3446:Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919
521:The database content includes the following
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3482:Measures of the National Assembly for Wales
910:Journal of Information Law & Technology
545:Acts of the pre-UK parliaments (1424–1707);
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186:Learn how and when to remove this message
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976:"Statute and Case Law Internet (1999)"
916:(2). Electronic Law Journals Project.
686:Secondary legislation pre-dating 1823;
289:The original database consisted of an
3494:Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly
1141:"Statute Law Database launched today"
1126:from the original on 8 November 2012.
805:"Office of Public Sector Information"
565:Acts of Senedd Cymru (Welsh Assembly)
430:Department for Constitutional Affairs
391:Department for Constitutional Affairs
347:Department for Constitutional Affairs
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3565:United Kingdom statutory instruments
964:. Written Answers. 16 December 1998.
936:"Acts of Parliament in Force (1997)"
322:Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1199:from the original on 1 August 2008.
809:Office of Public Sector Information
656:Statutory rules of Northern Ireland
628:The database also contains certain
507:Office of Public Sector Information
499:Office of Public Sector Information
345:. Two contracts were signed by the
280:Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
1147:. 20 December 2006. Archived from
1091:Brook, Heather (18 October 2006).
1010:from the original on 5 March 2016.
871:from the original on 15 July 2014.
857:Brooke, Heather (16 August 2006).
640:Statutory instruments (from 1948);
480:The database contains the text of
305:had been available prior to 1991.
158:tone or style may not reflect the
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1219:Government promises data shake-up
998:Holmes, Nick (5 September 2006).
984:. Written Answers. 22 March 1999.
689:Orders in Council made under the
1066:White, Rupert (5 October 2006).
904:Williamson, Robin (7 May 1996).
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168:guide to writing better articles
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3466:Acts of the Scottish Parliament
1114:Brooke, Heather (23 May 2006).
1021:Hodgett, Norman (1 July 2005).
981:Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
961:Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
941:Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
415:Freedom of Information Act 2000
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944:. House of Lords. 2 July 1997.
650:Scottish statutory instruments
579:Parliament of Northern Ireland
559:Measures of the Welsh Assembly
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3587:Church of England instruments
1266:Pre-parliamentary legislation
956:"Statute Law Database (1998)"
783:"The UK Statute Law Database"
271:comprised in the publication
1297:the Kingdom of Great Britain
644:Welsh statutory instruments
533:Parliament of Great Britain
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1045:"The Statute Law Database"
605:Church of England measures
595:(2000–2002, 2007 to date);
548:UK local acts (from 1991);
339:Government Secure Intranet
3608:Law of the United Kingdom
1925:Acts of Parliament of the
683:Most pre-1991 local acts;
593:Northern Ireland Assembly
586:Northern Ireland Assembly
358:content management system
209:Aspects of the new site:
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2242:of the United Kingdom of
1928:Kingdom of Great Britain
1273:List of English statutes
765:"Changes to Legislation"
419:Information Commissioner
139:New Statute Law Database
111:, formerly known as the
1711:Interregnum (1642–1660)
1214:UK Statute Law Database
1167:UK Statute Law Database
1073:The Law Society Gazette
787:UK Statute Law Database
395:Citizens Advice Bureaux
284:Citizens Advice Bureaux
162:used on Knowledge (XXG)
113:UK Statute Law Database
18:UK Statute Law Database
1905:Parliament of Scotland
1068:"Statutes free on web"
834:The Law-Making Process
744:www.legislation.gov.uk
166:See Knowledge (XXG)'s
3557:Secondary legislation
2212:Parliament of Ireland
1304:Parliament of England
1055:on 16 September 2007.
630:secondary legislation
624:Secondary legislation
503:The National Archives
486:secondary legislation
366:The Stationery Office
200:The National Archives
133:The National Archives
69:The National Archives
3618:Online law databases
3478:Acts of Senedd Cymru
3409:European Communities
1278:Charter of Liberties
1189:"Forty-Ninth Report"
1173:on 14 February 2009.
793:on 16 November 2009.
316:On 9 February 1996,
3383:Halsbury's Statutes
1295:of states preceding
1293:Acts of parliaments
1187:(7 November 2006).
1049:number7.demon.co.uk
719:Halsbury's Statutes
669:Current limitations
553:Scottish Parliament
523:primary legislation
517:Primary legislation
495:Ministry of Justice
482:primary legislation
99:Current status
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3389:Legislation.gov.uk
2240:Acts of Parliament
1145:Your Right to Know
769:Legislation.gov.uk
662:Church instruments
540:English Parliament
455:. You can help by
115:, is the official
109:legislation.gov.uk
84:legislation.gov.uk
52:Government website
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299:Statutes In Force
274:Statutes in Force
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