In general, any stand-alone (i.e., non-amending) provision of a statute is attributed to only one place in the Code. However, such a provision can sometimes be just as relevant to several points of the Act, which end up being classified in a number of different sections of the Code, such as a coming-into-force date that applies to all amendments to the Act. In this case, the cited legal text is placed in one of the relevant sections and presented in full, and the other sections contain side notes that alert the user to the existence of the provision and indicate where the full text is located. Although the wording is drafting, the main function of the footnotes is to indicate the location of the legal text, which should always be considered predominant. Below are some examples of the most common liner notes that can be found. Appropriations appear after the text of a section of the Code and consist of quotations from each Act that has passed, amended or otherwise influenced the section. With very few exceptions, references refer to public law or other acts of Congress. The citation of each enacting and amending Act contains the public law or chapter number [2], the division, title and article numbers (if applicable), the date of enactment, as well as the statutes in the large volume and page number. For example, section 1301 of Title 25 is based on section 201 of Title II of the Public Law (“Pub. L.”) 90-284, which was proclaimed on April 11, 1968 and appears on page 77 of volume 82 of the Statutes at Large. This article was also amended by paragraphs (b) and (c) of article 8077 of Public Law 101-511. The appropriation for Section 1301 is: .
Section 5 § 1 (a) of the Race Relations Act 1976. Race Relations Act 1976, section 5 (1) (a). under section 11 § 1A of the Limitation Act 1980. Sometimes a reference in the text of the section is accompanied by the footnote “See references in the text note below”. The purpose of the footnote is to indicate an incorrect or misleading reference that is not apparent from the reference itself. Definitions The accompanying notes indicate that elsewhere in the Code there is a legal provision that defines a term used in this section. Definitions Side notes do not appear for terms in the text of the section that are defined in the same unit of the Code, such as a chapter or subchapter, and do not exist for certain definitions older than 20 years. There are several categories of statutory annotations.
The most common are name change, effective date, short title, regulations, construction and various notices. Various annotations include elements such as conference deliverables, study and reporting requirements, and other provisions related to the purpose of the section of the Code under which they appear. Scores in the same category are combined. Within each group, the notes are usually arranged in reverse chronological order according to the law, but several notes of the same law are arranged in the ascending legal order. In the printed version of the Code, the General Registry contains an alphabetical list of subjects, as well as the title of the Code and the section dealing with each subject. The general index does not appear in the online version of the Code. The classification tables indicate where recently passed legislation will appear in the Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those acts. The references in positive legal titles are similar to those in non-positive legal titles, except that there is no fundamental law. Instead, the articles of a positive law title are part of the title itself and do not originate from any other law or are not part of any other law.
The first quote in the supply refers to the act that enacted the section. If the article was included in the title when the title was promulgated as positive law, the act issuing the title simply appears as the first quotation in the quotation with nothing before [3]. For example, Title 31 was promulgated as a positive legal title by Public Law 97-258. Section 304 of Title 31 was included in Title 31 at the time the title was published and therefore has Public Law 97-258 as the first citation. This article was amended by Public Law 102-390. The source of section 304 is: Titles. The second type of change is to add or change section and subsection headings. If a code section is based on a legal act section with headings, the code usually retains the original titles. In some cases, for example if the original act does not contain headings, or if the text of the section is changed so that the titles of the act become inaccurate, code editors will provide or modify the titles of the code section.
(i) The first or only section of a bill is designated section 1, and all subsequent sections are identified by Arabic numerals in order; Constitution. In non-positive legal titles, the first act of reference is almost always the “Basic Law”. The Basic Law is the law on which the article of the Code is based and to which it belongs. In the above example of Article 1301 of Title 25, the Basic Law is Public Law 90-284, since Article 1301 is based on Article 201 of Public Law 90-284. The Basic Law is a feature only in non-positive legal titles, since in positive legal titles, the articles were enacted by Congress as part of the title of the code itself.