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legislation.gov.uk

The UK's official statute book online, serving legislation as structured Akoma Ntoso XML addressable to the provision, with amendments tracked over time.

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The essay's principal evidence that machine-readable law is a matter of engineering rather than speculation, and that the United Kingdom is further along than most. Its development followed the embarrassment of R v Chambers, in which a court came close to handing down judgment on regulations that had been revoked seven years earlier.

Implements Akoma Ntoso, which is what makes a clause of Magna Carta addressable and its amendments legible eight centuries on.

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