Pre-2018 secondary legislation wholly revoked with no interim historical versions
Background
We have committed to updating secondary legislation from 2018 onwards. Therefore, any secondary legislation made before 1.1.2018 which is wholly revoked without substantive savings may be revoked without making historical versions for the amendments made to it prior to its revocation.
We will make a dated version or versions for the doc’s original coming into force position, but then we will apply no other amendments to the doc at all except for its final revocation.
In the revocation annotation, we will provide a helpful editorial note to the user to explain what we have done.
An example, S.I. 2000/1973:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1973
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/changes/affected/uksi/2000/1973
We will revoke pre-2018 secondary legislation in this way from now on even if it is wholly revoked after 1.1.2018.
Method
1. Check that the pre-2018 secondary document is wholly revoked with no substantive savings. If you’re not sure, please seek advice.
2. Complete secondary effects research for all its affecting docs.
3. Then do a TOES correction:
Add N and Note to all effects except the final revocation effect(s) (and except for any coming into force effects derived from initial edit). The Note should have the following format:
This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. No historical revised versions have been created for this S.I. for amendments made prior to its final revocation on [date] by [revoking legislation details]
Add an Appended Commentary for final revocation effect so that its eventual annotation includes at the end the following Editorial note:
[Editorial note: No historical revised versions have been created for amendments to this S.I. made prior to its final revocation. A revised version of how the S.I. stood at its first commencement is available and, to see the document content as it originally stood when it was made, select the ‘Original (As Made)’ version. For further details of the amendments see the List of All Changes available in ‘More Resources’]
(If there is more than one revised version for original commencement, then change the second sentence to begin: “Revised versions of how the S.I. stood at its original commencement are available …”)
4. Then do initial edit, if not already done. This will add in coming into force effects for the original commencement position.
5. Then do the update:
- Allocate update and do the update for the initial edit coming into force PiTs and then do the whole doc autorepeal for the final revocation.
- Check out XML and add new
ukl:Paratag to commentary and move Editorial note text into it. - Place
ukl:Strongtags around the words “Editorial note” using the Element list. - Place
ukl:ExternalLinktags around the words “List of All Changes” and in the Attribute Inspector add URI details (i.e. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/changes/affected/uksi/[Year]/[Number]) to provide a link to the Changes to Legislation page on legislation.gov.uk for effects hitting the affected doc. (Note: if there any ampersands (&) in the URL, they will need to be replaced by the entity&in order for the link to work).
