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Legislation.gov.uk – Essential for the Law Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2013

Carol Tullo
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Abstract

Legislation on the Web gives rise to a unique set of challenges. The content has strict rules governing its structure and typographic layout. One piece of legislation can change others, often in complex ways. The text may or may not be in force and may or may not extend to a particular jurisdiction. This unique linked data service and its value proposition is discussed by Carol Tullo. This is a data source that underpins and drives the UK legislation publishing processes and the validation of secondary legislation, providing a streamlined end to end set of online legal tools for all to use.

Keywords

legislationlinked data
Type
Selection of Papers from the BIALL Conference 2013
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 218 - 224
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 New legislation in the UK is published by a contractor, The Stationery Office, under three interlocking contracts superintended by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and the Office of the Queen's Printer for Scotland (OQPS). The Controller of HMSO is appointed by Her Majesty The Queen to the offices of Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament and Queen's Printer for Scotland by Letters Patent. There is a similar office of Government Printer for Northern Ireland. The functions of HMSO, OQPS and the various offices responsible for publishing legislation are carried out from within The National Archives. The Queen's Printer for Scotland has a separate reporting line to Scottish Ministers.

2 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/introduction

3 http://www.legislation.gov.uk

4 Webmaster Tools reports over 33 million external links or back links from other websites to legislation.gov.uk.

5 For more technical context see Tullo, Online Access to UK Legislation: Strategy and Structure, Biasiotti and Faro, From Information to Knowledge, IOS Press (2011).

6 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/

7 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office/series/good-law

8 Martine Reicherts, Director-General of the Publications Office of the European Union, July 2013.