This topic sets out the types of legislation that are held on SLD. For a general overview of the types of legislation used in the UK, whether or not held on SLD, see Introduction to UK Legislation.
Most types of primary legislation made in the UK (broadly speaking, those of a public general nature) are held on SLD in revised form. Other primary legislation and secondary legislation from 1991 onwards is held on SLD only in unrevised (‘as enacted’) form.
For pre-1991 legislation held and revised on SLD, the earliest version is the revised text as it stood at 1 February 1991 (the basedate). Legislation wholly repealed before the basedate is not carried. Some Acts that were still in force at the basedate but which were superseded by consolidations in 1991 or 1992 are not carried on SLD. Also, certain categories of Public General Acts enacted before the basedate are not carried (subject to a few exceptions). These categories are: Consolidated Fund Acts; Appropriation Acts; Expiring Laws Acts; Statute Law Revision Acts; Statute Law (Repeals) Acts; Acts of a local or personal nature; and Acts extending only to territory outside the UK. Pre-1921 UK Acts extending only to Northern Ireland (as at the SLD basedate) are not at present carried. These Acts were included in Volumes A to D of The Northern Ireland Statutes Revised and will be incorporated into SLD in due course..
SLD has now incorporated the revised primary legislation of Northern Ireland previously published in the numbered volumes of The Northern Ireland Statutes Revised and its supplements. As the historical versioning of the Northern Ireland statutes will date only from 1 January 2006 (the Northern Ireland basedate), the unrevised ('as enacted') versions of these statutes enacted from 1991 to the end of 2005 will continue to be retained on SLD.
Details of the legislation held on SLD are as follows:
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