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The volumes of Halsbury's Statutes

Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales has a number of different parts:

Annual Consolidated Index, Cumulative Supplement and monthly updated Noter-up loose-leaf service binder.

The annual Consolidated Index details where specific Statutes can be found in main work volumes. The Cumulative Supplement updates the main work volumes with any changes or updates to the Acts since the main work volumes were published.
Main work volumes.

The main work volumes, volume 1 to 59 contain the full text of Statutes currently in force in England and Wales. The first volume begins with agriculture and the last one finishes with wills.
The Current Service Binders contain information about recent legislation.

Any information about recent legislation that has been published since the main work volumes were printed is kept in a series of binders called the Current Statute Service Binders. Each loose-leaf binder is updated monthly.


Other parts of Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales

Destination Tables

Published periodically, this volume of Halsbury's Statutes contains tables which relate to all consolidation Acts passed from 1983 to the present day and a selection of other tables relating to important consolidations passed during earlier years. This collection of tables is a guide to the repealed enactments.

"The consolidation of legislation: The general object of a consolidating Act is to present the whole body of law on a particular subject in one principal Act, repealing and repealing the former legislation" - Halsbury's Statues of England and Wales

Halsbury's Statutes Citator

This annual volume provides a quick guide to the current status of Statutes. It is divided into two parts:

  1. Alphabetical list of Statutes
  2. Current status of each Statute

Is it in force?

This volume gives details of the commencement dates of Acts passed since 1st January 1980.

Consolidated Table of Cases

This annual volume has two parts. Part 1 is an alphabetical list of all cases that are printed in the current volumes of Halsbury's Statutes and the Cumulative Supplement. Part 2 contains the same cases, arranged according to the Statutes to which they relate.