This topic provides a brief overview of UK legislation for users who are not already familiar with it. The topic describes the various types of UK legislation, whether or not they are held on SLD. For a complete breakdown of the types of legislation held on SLD, see Types of Legislation on SLD.
The way in which legislation is structured is dealt with in How Legislation is Organised on SLD.
For methods of 'citing' (that is, referring to) different kinds of legislation, see How we cite legislation.
This topic explains the division of UK legislation into the two main categories of Primary Legislation and Secondary Legislation and describes the types of legislation in each of these categories.
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