Form and accessibility of the law applicable in Wales: a consultation paper

Great Britain: Law Commission

Format
Paperback
Publisher
TSO
Country
United Kingdom
Published
10 July 2015
Pages
247
ISBN
9780108561641

Form and accessibility of the law applicable in Wales: a consultation paper

Great Britain: Law Commission

In Wales, as in England, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find out what the law is. This is caused in part by the sheer volume of primary and secondary legislation and the frequency with which it is amended. Another major cause of inaccessibility is the form in which legislation is presented. In Wales, however, these difficulties are compounded by factors resulting from the incremental development of devolution. For example, functions under a large number of Acts of Parliament have been transferred to the Welsh Ministers, but this is not apparent on the face of the Acts of Parliament in question. Moreover, further complexity is introduced by the rapidly increasing divergence of the law applicable in Wales from that applicable in England, an inevitable consequence of devolution. The public do not have access, free of charge, to an up to date version of the legislation applying in Wales. This project therefore provides a timely opportunity to consider ways in which the present difficulties in gaining access to the law may be remedied before the situation becomes even more complex

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