Research and analysis

Legislation: what works best for the reader

This article describes a study carried out in 2012 into how legislation is drafted and presented.

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Cabinet Office
Published
4 July 2014

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皇冠体育app Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and 皇冠体育app National Archives carried out this study to:

  • understand more about what it was like to be a reader of legislation
  • assess whether some drafting techniques were more helpful for readers than others

This article by Alison Bertlin was first published in the May 2014 issue of 皇冠体育app Loophole, a publication by the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel.

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Published 4 July 2014

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