The editorial task of revising legislation on SLD is carried out by the Statute Law Database Team in London and the staff of the Northern Ireland Statutory Publications Office in Belfast. For further details see About us.
Revision of legislation on SLD involves, in simple terms, amending the text of the legislation where appropriate and adding annotations containing information about effects on legislation or other editorial information.
In the following topics we explain our approach to editing legislation, describe the types of annotation we use and give an overview of the main editorial conventions we follow in drafting annotations.
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Our Approach to Editing Legislation
F-notes - Amendments (Textual)
C-notes - Modifications etc. (not altering text)
I-notes - Commencement information
P-notes - Subordinate legislation made
X-notes - Editorial information