PART 2INTERPRETATION AND OPERATION OF WELSH LEGISLATION

References in Welsh legislation to legislation and other documents

23Edition of Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom referred to

(1)

This section applies where an Assembly Act or a Welsh subordinate instrument refers to an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (whether by its short title or by year, statute, session or chapter).

(2)

The reference is a reference to the Act as enacted which is published—

(a)

by the Queen's Printer, or

(b)

under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

(3)

But—

(a)

where the reference is to an Act included in a revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, the reference is a reference to that edition;

(b)

where paragraph (a) does not apply and the reference is to an Act included in the edition prepared under the direction of the Record Commission, the reference is a reference to that edition.