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Where an Act cites another Act by year, statute, session or chapter, or a section or other portion of another Act by number or letter, the reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring- (a) in the case of Acts included in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, to that edition;
An Act to revoke certain retained EU law; to make provision relating to the interpretation of retained EU law and to its relationship with other law; to make provision relating to powers to modify retained EU law; to enable the restatement, replacement or updating of certain retained EU law; to enable the updating of restatements and ...
Where any Act cites or refers to another Act otherwise than by its short title, the short title may, in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, be printed in substitution for such citation or reference. [12] Where an Act cites another Act by year, statute, session or chapter, or a section or other portion of another Act by ...
An Act to provide for the numbering and citation of future Acts of Parliament by reference to the calendar year in which they are passed. Citation: 10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34: Introduced by: Viscount Kilmuir (the Lord Chancellor) (Lords) Territorial extent United Kingdom: Dates; Royal assent: 19 July 1962: Commencement: 19 July 1962 [2]
Cases are to be cited with as little punctuation as possible in the names or the report names. If there is a neutral citation, [3] which is generally the case after 2001 or 2002, it should be cited before the "best" report: the Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc.), or the WLR or the All ER, after a comma. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256
legislation.gov.uk, formerly known as the UK Statute Law Database, is the official Web-accessible database of the statute law of the United Kingdom, hosted by The National Archives. Established in the early 2000s, [ 1 ] it contains all primary legislation in force since 1267 and all secondary legislation since 1823; it does not include ...
Each particular act formed a section, or a chapter, of the complete statute, so that, e.g. the Vagabonds Act 1383 became 7 Ric. 2. c. 5. Enrolment of public acts on manuscript parchment "Parliament Rolls" continued until 1850. [35] The longest Act of Parliament in the form of a scroll is an act regarding taxation passed in 1821.
Legal citation is the practice of crediting and referring to authoritative documents and sources. The most common sources of authority cited are court decisions (cases), statutes, regulations, government documents, treaties, and scholarly writing.