FINDING UK LEGISLATION
THROUGH ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Yes
No*
Name of the
Statute/S.I.
known?
Without
Amendmen
ds?
No
Yes
legislation.gov.uk managed by the National
Archives on behalf of HM
Government - contains
UK legislation as it was
originally enacted
including the full text of
Acts of the UK Parliament
since 1988 (as well as
some Acts from 18011987) and SIs since 1987.
legislation.gov.uk hopes
to provide amended
versions of all UK
legislation in the near
future.
Use Lexis®Library, or
Westlaw UK to search for
your specified words in the
text of legislation.
Please Note: Be cautious
about searching for
legislation by subject (using
the Search terms field) as
this will identify every
occurrence of the search
term(s) you use, making it
difficult to identify key
legislative provisions and
will result in key provisions
being overlooked where
alternative terminology to
your search terms has been
used.*
Westlaw UK provides all statutes in force in
amended form with historic text back to 1991,
plus notes of related SIs, cases and journal
articles section by section. Statutory
instruments also in full text.
Lexis®Library, provides all statutes in force in
amended form. Statutory instruments also in
full text.
Database contents correct as at 24 April 2013.
Use Halsbury’s
Laws (online version
found on
Lexis®Library) for a
description of the
law of a topic, with
references to
relevant legislation
and case law.
* The index in
Halsbury’s Statutes and
Halsbury’s Statutory
Instruments still provide
one of the most effective
and easiest ways to find
legislation by topic area.
These indexes are not
available in electronic
form.