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Guide to Law Online: Wales

Legal Guides

The following resources include primary and secondary legal reference materials, as well as government and non-government websites that provide access to free online legal information about Wales.

Official gazettes are primary sources of law published by national governments to disseminate new legislation, regulations, and decisions of governmental bodies. These publications may also contain other information, including the text of international agreements, court decisions, official announcements, and government notices. For countries with civil law systems, the official gazette often serves as the sole source of the authoritative texts of laws until updated codes are published. In most countries, a law enters into force on the date of publication in the official gazette.

To access any of the gazettes in the Library’s collection that have been digitized and made freely available online, visit the Foreign Legal Gazettes Collection. This collection is continually updated as material becomes available.

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional digital content are provided in the catalog record when available. The Law Library has created an online tool, the Foreign Legal Gazettes Guide, which provides a simplified way to search the catalog records for some of the gazettes in the collection.

Below you will find a list of selected legal reference materials relating to Wales, including statutory collections, case reporters, current regulations, and secondary source resources, when available in the Law Library's collection.

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional digital content are provided when available.

The following resources have been created or curated by the Law Library of Congress related to this nation. In addition to documents, many of the links below retrieve results from online databases and catalogs or collections of legal materials maintained by the Law Library.