UK Statutes – Document Types

Acts of Parliament are often too large for convenient handling as a single document in a database. For the UK Statutes database, Justis Publishing therefore creates a separate document for the preamble and for each section and for each schedule.

You can click the blue “Outline” tab, and then use the Outline to either view the entire Act as a single document, or to jump to the preamble or to an individual section or schedule.

Jumping to another part of an Act

Preamble

The Preamble documents in the UK Statutes database contain the Title, Year, Preamble and Made fields. The Preamble field contains a summary of the provisions of the Act. The Made field contains the date on which the Statute was made. The Title is shown in blue and underlined, indicating a hypertext link; click the Title to return to the Arrangement of Sections.

Cardiff Bay Barrage Act 1993

1993 CHAPTER 42

An Act to provide for the construction by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation of a barrage across the mouth of Cardiff Bay with an outer harbour and for related works; to make provision for the acquisition and use of land for the works; to make provision about the operation and management of the barrage, the outer harbour and the water impounded by the barrage; to make provision for dealing with property damage resulting from any alteration of groundwater levels which may occur in consequence of the construction of the barrage; to enable other protective provisions to be made; and for connected purposes.

[5th November 1993]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Sections and Schedules

The sections and schedules contain the main body of an Act. In the UK Statutes database, a separate document has been created for each section and for each schedule. The layout is similar to that in the printed version of the Act, including side notes.

References to other Acts of Parliament and to Statutory Instruments are shown in blue and underlined and are hypertext links. Position your mouse pointer so that it changes to a hand, and then click to display the appropriate document.

You can use the green JustCite tabs to see which legislation is amended by, amends or implements the section or schedule.

When an entire section or schedule has been repealed, this is indicated on the green “Status” tab:

Repealed indicator

If you want to retrieve only a particular section or schedule, you can enter its document reference in the Reference field on the Search In Legislation screen. If you want to retrieve all of the sections and schedules of an Act, you can search for the complete short title in the Reference field.