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It should be fairly interesting. Might look at it sometime when I'm incredibly bored
Daily Telegraph 30/07/10
by Emma Barnett,
Digital Media Editor:
From 13th century statutes to the 1998 Data Protection Act, every law made in the UK since 1267 is now online in one place for public scutiny.
Legislation.gov.uk will allow anyone to view the laws on which their legal rights and responsibilities are based.
The website consists of 6.5 million web pages and a further 6.5 million PDF documents. It replaces The Office of Public Sector Information and the Statute Law Databases's websites.
The new website, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, cost £419,000 to create.
John Sheridan, of The National Archives, which launched the site, said: "We are the first country in the world to open up its statute book in this way."
It should be fairly interesting. Might look at it sometime when I'm incredibly bored
Does it include the one about all young men having to practise their archery every Sunday? Or the one about every taxi cab having to carry a bale of straw for the horse? Or the one about policemen having to walk in the gutter, not on the pavement, because they're public servants?
Or could they all be urban myths?
Steve
I do hope you're right! I'm absolutely sick of archery today-it's not as if anyone checks my prowess? Sod it,i'm not doing it anymore!name='Steve Crook' timestamp='1280675410' post='458829']
Does it include the one about all young men having to practise their archery every Sunday? Or the one about every taxi cab having to carry a bale of straw for the horse? Or the one about policemen having to walk in the gutter, not on the pavement, because they're public servants?
Or could they all be urban myths?
Steve
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