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The Statute Book is "the surviving body of enacted legislation published by authority" in "a number of publications".[1]
In England at the end of 1948, the Statute Book printed by authority consisted of the twenty-four volumes of The Statutes: Second Revised Edition and the thirty-three volumes of Public General Acts published annually since 1920, making in all fifty-seven volumes.[2]
In A First Book of English Law, Owen Hood Phillips said that there is no Statute Book.[3] John Baker said that "the statute book" was no closer to being a historical entity than "the" register of writs was.[4]
In autumn 1947, the Statute Law Committee was given terms of reference "to consider the steps necessary to bring the Statute Book up to date by consolidation, revision, and otherwise".[5]
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