''Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales'' (commonly referred to as ''Halsbury's Statutes'') provides updated texts of every

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s, with detailed annotations to each section and Schedule of each Act. It incorporates the effects of new Acts of Parliament and secondary legislation into existing legislation to provide a consolidated "as amended" text of the current

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. ''Halsbury's Statutes'' was created in 1929. The full title of this work was ''The Complete Statutes of England Classified and Annotated in Continuation of Halsbury’s Laws of England and for ready reference entitled Halsbury’s Statutes of England''. As indicated by the title, the new work was to be a companion to ''Halsbury’s Laws of England'' and therefore bears the name of

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. The first edition, in twenty volumes, appeared between 1929 and 1931. The new encyclopedia was based on the design of the earlier '' Butterworths’ Twentieth Century Statutes (Annotated)'', a work in five volumes covering the Acts of 1900 to 1909, which had been kept up to date by annual supplemental volumes. Like its companion, ''Halsbury's Laws'', it was arranged by subject matter. This new work, however, expanded on the previous statutory work in that it included all primary legislation in force at the time of publication. The second edition in 33 volumes was published from 1948 to 1954. The current edition (the fourth), in fifty volumes, was published between 1985 and 1992, and is supplemented by an annual hardbound supplement and periodic loose-leaf updates. It is published by

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. Individual volumes are reissued when there has been a significant impact on the subject matter concerned through changes in legislation. The complete set consists of the main volumes, the index, tables of statutes, secondary legislation and cases, the annual Cumulative Supplement and the quarterly

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. ''Halsbury's Statutes'' is also available as a searchable electronic archive on a paid subscription basis.

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