Legislation Act 2001

The main object of this Act is to make legislation more accessible.

This is to be achieved particularly by—

encouraging access to legislation through the internet, while maintaining access to printed legislation; and

restating the law dealing with the ‘life cycle’ of legislation, improving its structure and content, and simplifying its provisions where practicable; and

assisting users of legislation to find, read, understand and use legislation by—

facilitating the shortening and simplification of legislation; and

promoting consistency in the form and language of legislation; and

providing rules about the interpretation of legislation; and

facilitating the updating and republication of legislation to ensure its ready availability.

For this section, the ‘life cycle’ of legislation includes the making (where relevant), notification, commencement, presentation and disallowance (where relevant), operation, interpretation, proof, republication, amendment and repeal of legislation and instruments made under legislation.