Changes to Legislation Results

Changes made to website text

Use this facility to search for changes that affect one or more items of legislation based on the criteria below. Alternatively you can leave this side of the form blank to find the changes and effects on any revised legislation.

• Legislation type: This optional field allows you to narrow down your search to changes affecting the legislation type you are interested in. The drop down list only includes those legislation types for which we hold revised versions for on legislation.gov.uk.
• Specific year/Range of years: These optional fields allow you to restrict your search to changes that affect legislation of a particular year or over a range of years.
• Number: If you are looking for changes that affect a specific item of legislation and you know its series number you can enter it in the number field.

Made by

Narrow down your search for changed legislation by entering details about the legislation that made the effects using this side of the form. Alternatively, leave his side of the form blank for effects and changes made by any legislation.

• Legislation type: This optional field allows you to narrow down your search to the legislation type you are interested in using the drop down box.
• Specific year/Range of years: These optional fields allow you to restrict your search to changes made by legislation in a particular year or over a range of years. Tip: to search for all changes made by all legislation in a particular year, enter the year in this side of the form, leaving the ‘Changes that affect’ side blank.
• Number: If you are looking for changes that are made by a specific item of legislation and you know its series number you can enter it in the number field.

Use the tick boxes to see either:

• All changes: All the changes and effects that match your search
• Applied changes: Those changes and effects that match your search criteria and have been applied to the text of legislation held on this website by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team.
• Unapplied changes: Those changes and effects that match your search criteria but have not yet been applied to the legislation held on this website by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team.

Changes applied to text

In this column, 'Yes' indicates that the changes have been applied to the text of the revised legislation on this site by the Legislation.gov.uk editorial team.

'Not yet' indicates that the changes and effects have not yet been applied to the text on the website. However, a list of any unapplied changes will be displayed alongside the content of the legislation at provision level in the 'Changes to Legislation' red box.

'N/A (see note)' indicates that the changes are not going to be applied by the editorial team. More information on why the changes will not be applied will be contained in the 'Notes' column.

Where the text of legislation is available in both English and Welsh languages, changes will be applied to both language versions separately. Where changes have been made to both language versions this column will have an entry of 'Yes'.

Where changes have been applied to one language version and not the other this column will state which changes have been applied and which have not for each language.

Type of effect

There are many different types of effects. An “effect” can denote any way in which legislation impacts on or changes other legislation. There are three main types of effect which result in the text of the legislation changing: insertions (text is added), substitutions (text is replaced) and repeals (where existing text ceases to have effect and may also be removed from the legislation). In addition there are some effects that we record that do not result in a change to the text of the legislation e.g. “Applied” which is used where provisions of existing legislation are applied to new legislation or to some set of circumstances specified in the applying legislation.