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Medical law & ethics: Legislation

UK, EU & international medical law & ethics.
Subjects: Law

Finding UK legislation

Holders of an Oxford SSO should use a subscription database as their source for UK (or English & Welsh) legislation

Legislation.gov is free access to all BUT cannot be relied upon to provide a current, amended/consolidated, text of legislation. It is, however, a good source of pdfs of the text of an act as it was originally passed by parliament.

In print

General Public Acts and Measures
Call Number: Cw UK 10 on Level 1
This is the official printed copy of statutes produced by the Stationary Office.  These are arranged by year and are not amended.

Halsbury's Statutes
Call Number: KZ on Level 2
Multi - volume work arranged by broad subject area.  Has statutes as amended and annotated with a looseleaf updating service.

Current Law Statutes annotated
Call Number: KZ on Level 2
From 1947 onwards.  Arranged by year.  Contains statutes as originally enacted with annotations.

Halsbury's Statutory Instruments
Call Number: KZ on Level 2
Arranged by broad subject these have summaries of statutory intruments with some major instruments being reprinted in full.

Recent E&W statutory development

Legislation from other jurisdictions

One of the Law Bod's other guides may be able to help!