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UK legislation library

Find legislation by its formal title, then continue to the official text on legislation.gov.uk. CrimeRate publishes a local explanation only when an offence has received a substantive, provision-specific editorial review.

32curated principal Acts available now

What the reviewed library covers

The chart counts the 32 principal Acts selected for this criminal-law guide. It shows editorial coverage, not the number of offences in force.

Violence and homicide5 Acts · 15.6%
Sexual offences and safeguarding6 Acts · 18.8%
Theft, property and fraud5 Acts · 15.6%
Weapons, drugs and public order5 Acts · 15.6%
Terrorism, cybercrime and organised crime5 Acts · 15.6%
Road offences, policing and criminal process6 Acts · 18.8%

Three different things are kept separate

Source record
The official legislation title, type, year, number and publication formats.
Reviewed guide
A plain-English explanation tied to a specific offence and provision.
Crime map record
An anonymised statistical category, not a statutory charge.

Find an Act or official record

Search by the formal title. Results link directly to the official source instead of generating a thin local page for every catalogue entry.

Official catalogue bootstrap pending

The legislation.gov.uk catalogue is temporarily challenging automated access from this host. We show 32 individually curated principal Acts rather than treating a blocked response as an empty catalogue. The resumable daily importer will expand this directory automatically when official access succeeds.

How to read a legislation page properly

The title alone is not enough. A reliable reading checks the version, territorial extent, commencement and amendments before applying a provision to an event.

Choose the provision

Find the exact section or schedule

Set the date

Open the version in force at that time

Check extent

Confirm the relevant UK jurisdiction

Read changes

Review amendments and commencement

Apply guidance

Use the current or historic guideline as appropriate

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Move from source text to reviewed context

The catalogue is for finding source legislation. For provision-specific definitions, prosecution elements and sentencing context, continue to the reviewed UK criminal-law guides. The source register explains how legislation and sentencing material are kept separate from statistical map categories. The crime data guides explain why a map category cannot be relabelled as a charge.