Public General Acts

• 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. Please note that the revision of Acts is not yet quite complete
• 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

• For details of the much less common type called the Local and Personal Acts (also known as Private Acts), please see the separate page Where can I find Local and Personal Acts

Further information

• Library catalogue
• Contact us - for help to find information, from your local librarians

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