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Ground-breaking legislation website
- 06th August 2010
A new government website has been launched, giving clearer, faster and simpler access to legislation over 200 years ranging from the Magna Carta to the latest statutory instruments – all for free.
The new website, www.legislation.gov.uk, will enable its users to be able to make a simple web search to find key legislation, saving law students and the public alike considerable time and expense.
Lord McNally, Minister of State, said the website is “the public’s statute book”. He said: “Legislation.gov.uk presents complex information in a clear and intuitive way. This groundbreaking work puts democracy at the heart of legislation and makes a major contribution to the government’s transparency agenda.”
It will feature a timeline feature giving a unique insight into how the law has changed and help people to understand the status of what they are looking at. Users of the site can also link between associated legislative documents including EU legislation on the EURLex, with multiple options for downloading and printing the legislation.
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