Statutes in Force

Statutes in Force was the fourth revised edition of the statutes.Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition. Reissue. Butterworths. London. 1995. Volume 44(1). Note 5 to paragraph 1251 at page 741. Publication began in 1972.William Twining and David Miers. How To Do Things With Rules: A Primer of Interpretation. Fourth Edition. Butterworths. London, Edinburgh, Dublin. 1999. Page 255. It was completed in 1981.Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition. Reissue. Butterworths. London. 1995. Volume 44(1). Note 5 to paragraph 1251 at page 741.

Statutes in Force continued to be updated until 1 February 1991.[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/help#aboutRevised "What legislation is available as revised?"]. Legislation.gov.uk Work on revised material for Statutes in Force was suspended on account of the preparation of the Statute Law Database.HL Deb vol 546, [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1993/jun/09/statute-law-database col 55WA]Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition. Reissue. Butterworths. London. 1995. Volume 44(1). Note 11 to paragraph 1251 at page 741.

The length of Statutes in Force exceeded sixty thousand pages.P Clinch "Statutes Probably Not in Force" (1994) 15(1) Statute Law Review 64 Statutes in Force consisted of bookletsF A R Bennion. Statute Law. [https://books.google.com/books?id=z14dAQAAMAAJ Second Edition]. Oyez Longman. 1983. Page 86. or pamphletsMackey. "Statutes in Force". [https://books.google.com/books?id=59ZKAQAAIAAJ How to Use a Scottish Law Library]. W Green. 1992. Page 26.Morris L Cohen. "Statutes in Force". Legal Research in a Nutshell. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jwOQAAAAMAAJ Fourth Edition]. West Publishing Company. 1985. Page 324 or leafletsCharles Carey, "Statutes in Force" (1984) [https://books.google.com/books?id=rlNRAQAAIAAJ 29] Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 316 (August 1984) that were punchedCheffins and Casey. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VuKnrIXEdFgC How to Find Information: Official Publications]. British Library. 2004. Page 3.Information Media & Technology, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xH3gAAAAMAAJ vols 19-20], p 18 and inserted in ring binders.David M Walker. A Legal History of Scotland. LexisNexis UK. 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gOVKAQAAIAAJ Volume 7]. Page 2. Statutes in Force has been described as a "loose booklet",P F Smith and S H Bailey. The Modern English Legal System. Sweet & Maxwell. London. 1984. Pages 193 and 206. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qKFKAQAAIAAJ Google Books]."Legislative Technique" in "Statute Law" (1980) [https://books.google.com/books?id=KMwwAQAAIAAJ 130] New Law Journal 56 at 57 (17 January 1980) "quasi loose leaf","Publication of Statutes" (1975) [https://books.google.com/books?id=YE9RAQAAIAAJ 20] Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 175 "modified loose leaf"Ryder. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqFKAQAAMAAJ Reflections on the Construction of Wills]. Lecture delivered at University College London on 9 February 1961. Published for the College by Stevens & Sons Ltd. London. Page 10. or "loose leaf"White and Willock. "Encyclopaedic series". [https://books.google.com/books?id=htlKAQAAIAAJ The Scottish Legal System]. Butterworths. Edinburgh. 1993. Page 143.Marke, Sloane and Ryan. Legal Research and Law Library Management. Revised Edition. Law Journal Press, a division of American Lawyer Media. New York. 2005. Section 3.12[4] at [https://books.google.com/books?id=5KdsREfD-E4C&pg=SA3-PA35 page 3-35]. publication.

Glanville Williams said that Statutes in Force was defective in that it did not contain "proper" annotations to the statutes, but that he preferred it to Halsbury's Statutes because it did not break up the statutes between titles in the way, which he considered inconvenient, that Halsbury's Statutes did.Glanville Williams. Learning the Law. Eleventh Edition. Stevens. 1982. Page 176. Halsbury's Laws of England said that Statutes in Force was not "altogether successful".

In 1991, the editorial board of Statutes in Force was replaced by the Advisory Committee on Statute Law.Halsbury's Laws of England. Fourth Edition. Reissue. Butterworths. London. 1995. Volume 44(1). Note 1 to paragraph 1251 at page 741.

Statutes in Force is the source of the originating text of most of the revised content published on Legislation.gov.uk.[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/help#aboutRevised "What legislation is available as revised?"]. Legislation.gov.uk