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Revision as of 14:50, 26 June 2025

Welcome to the legislation.gov.uk Community Editorial Wiki

Navigation

You can navigate this Wiki using the Table of Contents below, or you can access the Main Page and the main sections of the Wiki from any page by following the links on the left hand side of the screen above the ‘Tools’ menu.

Search function

You can search the Wiki using the search box at the top right corner of your screen.

For best results use double quotes around a phrase. Adding an asterisk to the end of your search term will also pick up any variations, e.g. using the search term “drafter*” should pick up “drafter”, “drafter’s, “drafters’” , etc.

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To narrow down your search, choose only from the page links in the section that relates to the task your search is about. Selecting a link will take you to the relevant page and you can then use ‘Ctrl F’ to find each occurrence of your search term on that page.

Familiarising yourself with the contents of the Wiki, as set out in the Table of Contents below, before you carry out a search, will help you to find what you are looking for.

Table of Contents

Revising Legislation

This section contains an introduction to UK legislation and how we revise it, and a glossary of terms used in the Wiki.

Introduction to UK Legislation Introduction to Revising Legislation Glossary

Editorial Principles

This section gives an overview of the general principles relevant to all editorial tasks, such as what types of legislative effects there are, what jurisdictions they extend to, how and when these effects come into force, what we mean when we refer to “savings” and “powers”, and what blanket amendments are.

Introduction to Editorial Principles
Effects:
Textual Amendments
Non-textual Effects
Extent and Territorial Application
Savings
Powers
Blanket Amendments
Errors in Legislation - Lex Errors

Preparation and Research Tasks

This section contains information about the editorial tasks that prepare new legislation and its effects on existing legislation for publication on legislation.gov.uk.

Preparation Tasks
Before you start Preparation Tasks: Introduction to Preparation and Research Tasks
The Identify Effects task: Identify Effects Task Overview
Approach to the Identify Effects Task:
Identifying and Marking up Effects
Viewing previously marked up documents to assist with the Identify Effects task
Marking up special types of SIs
Marking up Finance Acts and other financial amendments
Starting the Identify Effects Task
Carrying out the Identify Effects Task
Carrying out Record Effects tasks: Extended Tables of Effects (TOES) Guidance for Record Effects:
TOES style look up table
Introduction to Record Effects
Recording Affected and Affecting Legislation
Recording Affected and Affecting Provisions
Recording Type of Effect
Recording Affecting Extent and Affecting Territorial Application
Recording Savings, Transitional Provisions and other ancillary provisions
Recording Commencement Authority, In Force Date and Qualification
Recording Comments for Editor, Notes and Amendment Applied to Database
Recording Suggested Commentary and Appended Commentary
Recording Effects on Retained EU Legislation
Recording Amendments to earlier affecting EU Exit SIs before their amendments come into force
Recording Finance Act effects and other financial amendments
Commencement Orders:
Introduction to Commencement Order tasks
Recording Coming into Force Effects
Commencing Effects Research
Research Tasks
Before you start Research Tasks: Introduction to Preparation and Research Tasks
Carrying out Initial Edit: Instructions for Online Initial Edit Task
Carrying out Secondary Effects Research: Instructions for Secondary Effects Research Task

Editorial Update

This section contains information about applying the effects we record during the preparation tasks stage in editorial update.

Before you start Editorial Update: Update Editor Checklist
Starting Update Tasks
Affected Extent Research
Carrying out Editorial Update: How to carry out textual amendments:
Provision Level Insertions
Higher Level Insertions
Provision Level Substitutions
Higher Level Substitutions
Provision Level Repeals
Higher Level Repeals
How to carry out non-textual amendments
How to carry out manual amendments
Editorial Practice in Editorial Update: Annotation Conventions
Approach to Update - Some Basic Rules and Exceptions
Specific Update Issues
Update Troubleshooting
XMetaL and XML tagging
Find more detail on carrying out specific types of update:
Amendment to Earlier Affecting Provision
Applying ‘Coming into force’ effects (including checking I-notes and start dates)
Applying partially in force amendments which are then brought further into force over time
Blanket amendments
Coronavirus Legislation
EU Exit Update Guidance Notes
Finance Acts and financial amendments
Images
Limited extent amendments - includes Concurrent Version Guidance
Lists
Renumbering
Retained EU Legislation Update
Tables
Working on pre-2018 documents: Pre-2018 secondary legislation wholly revoked with no interim historical versions
Freeing up work on pre-2018 secondary documents
Editorial Update Review Guidance for Reviewers

Editorial Corrections

Carrying out TOES and legislation corrections: Corrections
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