Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales

Subjects:

Major Works

Contents:

12 Issues per year;

Halsburys Statutes is updated regularly by an annual Cumulative Supplement (charged separately on publication) and a comprehensive updating service which includes the texts of statutes published since the reissue of the main volumes (charged annually).

The following annual publications complete the Halsburys Statutes set and are charged separately on publication.; Is it in Force?, a guide to the commencment of statutes passed over the last 25 years.; Consolidated Index and Tables of Statutes; Halsburys Statutes Citator, a one-volume guide to the current status of statutes in England and Wales.; Consolidated Table of Cases, a guide to all case references printed in Halsburys Statutes current volumes, Cumulative Supplement and Noter-up.; A volume of Destination Tables relating to consolidating Acts is published periodically.

Halsbury’s Statutes comprises the statute law of England and Wales from the earliest times to the present day. The fourth edition of Halsbury’s Statutes, which was published in 50 volumes between 1985 and 1992, provides the user with an up-to-date version of the amended text of every Public General Act and Church of England Measure currently in force, and also of a number of private and local Acts.

Halsbury’s Statutes is easy to use with statutes grouped under an alphabetical title scheme covering the main areas of legal practice similar to that in Butterworths’ other major works. Each Act is fully annotated to provide precise information relating to:-

• parliamentary debates
  
• amendments and repeals
  
• derivation notes in the case of consolidating legislation
  
• commencement
  
• cross-references to other provisions of the Act and to other relevant provisions in Halsbury’s Statutes
  
• judicial interpretation
  
• subordinate legislation
  
• references to words specifically defined in the Act
  
  

Volumes are revised and reissued when necessary to take account of changes in law and practice and are charged for separately on publication.