Talk:List of legislation in the United Kingdom

message: I've just added every Act passed since the middle of the 13th Century, beginning with the letter 'A', which is still in force, or partly in force.  I've divided by century, and by decade for the 20th Century, because it would do my head in to arrange them by year as I go along.
What I wanted to say is that if we include every single Act that has ever been passed, public or private, this list is going to be a monster, and not an especially useful one.  Would it not be more prudent to limit it somehow? mholland 02:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this list really be completed? 

message: Might it be useful to have a list of Bills that never made it to be Acts, but are interesting enough to have articles about them?
What about Bills that are currently making their way through Parliament?
James F. (talk) 00:09, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Bills? 

message: I just saw Template:Infobox AU Legislation; thoughts?
James F. (talk) 08:24, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems they think it could easily be apply to other commonwealth countries too with minimal modifications. A good idea, IMO. Owain 15:21, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox template 

message: It's easy to get the list of Acts of Parliament from 1988 to the present as they are presented in one place, ie the OPSI website. Earlier than that there are some acts that are very well known, such as the Consumer Credit Act 1974, the Parliament Act 1911 etc and a number of those are linked to on the page. However, it is now possible to find a list of all acts passed in all the years of the 20th century online. It only requires a little bit of work in the online archives of the London Gazette.
The key to finding the titles of the acts is to restrict the searches in their online archive to a particular calendar year and then enter the search term "royal assent". That will find all the acts notified as having received royal assent in that particular year. It covers both normal Acts of Parliament and local acts. The only slight wrinkle is that measures of the General Synod of the Church of England also get royal assent so if you just cut and paste the text from every list, then you will find that they slip into things. There are also occasional scannos that the OCR software used has introduced.
I've used that technique to fill in all the acts for 1939, 1970 and 1979 so far. David Newton 21:01, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you get given chapter numbers for them, it might be useful to add them - this will make it easier to pick out local acts later, if we want to list them seperately. We're also probably going to have to look at splitting the page up - it'll be hard to handle more than a decade or two at a time otherwise. Shimgray 02:05, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can add chapter numbers for every Act which is still in force (such is the limitation of my source, which is "Acts in Force").  But it would be a chore, and while that in itself isn't a problem, I don't think it would be genuinely useful.  I could go through a law library and find a Chapter number for, say, the Appropriation Act 1939, but it wouldn't add anything much to the 'pedia.  I mean, the Act itself is only notable for its having been passed by Parliament - it's not in force any more, it will never be a statutory authority for any legal case and nobody will ever refer to it, except to find out how much money the Government appropriated in that year. mholland 02:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You can find chapter numbers for the acts in the London Gazette. Simply use the search technique I outline above. I cut and pasted the act names without the chapter numbers. Thinking about it, it is probably a good idea to separate out the local acts and public acts. A lot of the public acts and local acts can be very easily spotted. The main reason I didn't include the chapter citations for the acts previous was because the acts are presented in alphabetical order, not in the order they occur in the statute book. David Newton 20:34, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acts Prior to 1988 

message: Today OPSI has put up a list of all private and public acts passed over the years. The local acts also have information on modification and repeals by later enactments. David Newton 21:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local and Private Acts