Legislation

Statute Law Database

www.statutelaw.gov.uk

At last, on line, free of charge, the official revised version of the statute book for the UK in electronic form, derived from Statutes in Force. When complete, can use this to check for current version of all UK and devolved legislation and track changes over time.

Scottish legislation

www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/s-acts.htm

Full access to all Acts and Statutory Instruments of the Scottish Parliament at the OPSI website.

Bills before the Scottish Parliament

www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/bills/billsInProgress/

Lists all current Bills before the Scottish Parliament with links to the text, explanatory notes and policy memoranda. For more detailed information of the progress of a Bill, see WHISP, the business bulletin and the reports of the Committees and the Parliament on that site.

UK legislation

www.opsi.gov.uk/acts.htm

Full access to all UK Acts made since 1988 and all UK SIs made since 1987 at the OPSI website. For updated statutes and pre-1988 legislation, see statute law database above. See www.opsi.gov.uk/chron-tables/chron-index for chronological tables of local, private and personal Acts, not available anywhere else.

Bills before the UK Parliament

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/

Improved site with detailed reference to all UK Bills pending and recently passed. RSS feeds available.

Hansard

www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/pahansard.htm

Much improved Hansard site in the process of further improvement with access to Hansard back to 1995, and beyond. There are also very helpful breakdowns of Hansard content by topic and category.

Welsh, Northern Irish and Irish legislation

www.bailii.org/databases.html#ew

Links to legislation for each of these areas are available here on the Bailii site.

ePolitix

www.epolitix.com/legislation

Useful site providing brief commentary on UK legislation, details as to Parliamentary progress and links to debates in Hansard.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

http://tinyurl.com/35vojom

This is the only place where one can find a complete downloadable (pdf format) list of all Acts of the General Assembly since 1931; together with its Regulations; and other documents of legal significance.