Current legislation lists
Points to note
- NetRegs only refers to legislation that affects the environment. We do not include any information for topics such as health and safety, planning and taxation.
- To get a complete picture of legislation on a particular subject you will probably have to refer to more than one document. You usually need to look at both :
- Acts or Orders (primary legislation) to understand the major principles; and
- Regulations (secondary legislation) to find out about details and updates. - In most cases the current legislation lists link to online versions of the original legislation on the Office for Public Sector Information (OPSI) website, and will not include any subsequent changes. However, OPSI is developing versions of legislation that include these changes. We are linking to these versions as they become available.
- Some legislation is usefully summarised in ‘Explanatory Notes’. You can usually find these at the end of the OPSI documents.
If you are interested in finding out about legislation that is being developed please see the future legislation section.
