The Virtual Library

Acts of Parliament, Parliamentary Bills and Statutory Instruments

The main type of UK Acts, the Public General Acts, are available at the Legislation.gov.uk.
Two versions of Acts are available, original versions (as enacted) and revised versions.
The revised versions have changes made by legislation enacted before 2002 incorporated into them. Many, but not all, later changes have also been incorporated
If an Act has not been completely updated with later changes, you will see a 'Changes to legislation' warning at the top of the text of the Act. The warning will link you to a page that lets you search for updates
For details of the web site's content and for more details on finding how up-to-date any Act is, click 'Frequently Asked Questions' at the the Legislation.gov.uk home page

Local and Personal Acts, also known as Private Acts, are available in original text only, not in revised text, apart from a very few exceptions, as noted below
Local Acts (but not Personal Acts) from 1991 are available at Legislation.gov.uk. They are unrevised, except for a small number which, for historic reasons, are revised
The site has a partial set from 1857-1990 and a complete set from 1991 to the present

Links to Bills before Parliament, draft Bills and Bills from previous Parliamentary sessions are at the Bills and Legislation page of the United Kingdom Parliament web site

Page last updated: 26th November 2013