Subsidiary legislation must, unless otherwise expressly provided in any statute, be published in the Government Gazette and, unless expressly provided in the subsidiary legislation itself, takes effect and comes into operation on the date of its publication.
In that decision, the court said the initial publication of a defamatory statement established when the item was "published" for purposes of the statute of limitations.
As soon as the lecture series opened, an anonymously written open letter was published charging that Blackstone had "violated the Statutes of the University, by arbitrarily changing the Day appointed for reading his solemn Lectures".
Similar delays had occurred after Partnair Flight 394 in 1988, which had resulted in the statute of limitations having come into effect by the time the report was published.
The excerpt was published with the assumption that it would be permitted under the "fair use" statute of copyright law.
When the report was published, Mr Cameron swiftly rejected Lord Justice Leveson's proposal that the new system must be underpinned by statute.
It was published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française of 9 February 1924, and the last modification of the statutes appeared in the JO of 3 August 1988.
Most statutes, apart from amending Acts and certain Acts such as Supply Acts, are assigned chapter numbers (the word "chapter" is usually abbreviated "Cap").. Revised editions (abbreviated "Rev. Ed"). of statutes that consolidate all amendments to statutes within certain periods of time are published regularly.
Details of the new independent regulator will be published by the government next week with the aim of the new system reaching the statute book by the summer recess.
That, combined with a legal requirement that all convictions be published (Notices of Judgment), proved to be important tools in the enforcement of the statute and had a deterrent effect upon would-be violators.
