Agree or disagree with the following sayings.

V. SPEAKING

Fill in articles where necessary.

STATUTES FREE ON WEB

Read the text. Use the correct form of the Passive Voice.

Point out sentences with Passive Voice in the text and explain the use.

IV. GRAMMAR FOCUS

Thursday 05 October 2006

The on-line statute law database moved closer to reality last month when the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) told users that the final Web-based system will be fundamentally free to use.

The decision.... (to reveal) in a newsletter from the DCA’s Statutory Publications Office (SPO), announcing the end of the first public ‘beta’ test phase of the database.

The next phase... (to expect) to have more than twice the number of users from a wider audience, including members of the public.

Until now it has been unclear how the DCA would operate a charging element for the database (see (2006) Gazette, 30 March, 11). But it appears that pressure from various sources has won the day – the SPO said the Web ‘will be launched free of charge to the public once piloting is complete. A commercial strategy... (to develop), but will primarily be looking at options that concern the commercial reuse of data’ as well as functionality for ‘specialist users’.

The Law Society welcomed the move. A spokeswoman said: ‘We... (to please) that this is being made available to everyone free of charge. The database will be a useful resource for solicitors and others.’

However, she added that it needs to present both current and historical data, as ‘an Act of Parliament may be considerably changed after it has come into force, and both the original text and the later changes to it need to be easily accessible’.

(taken from the “Law Society Gazette”)

In … United States, acts of … Congress, such as federal statutes, are published chronologically in the order in which they become law — often by being signed by … President, and are grouped together in official bound book form, also chronologically, as "session laws." The "session law" publication for Federal statutes is called … United States Statutes at Large. Any given act may be only one page long, or hundreds of pages, in length. An act may be classified as either a "Public Law" or a "Private Law”.

Because each … Congressional act may contain laws on a variety of topics, many acts, or portions thereof are also rearranged and published in a topical, subject matter codification. … official codification of Federal statutes is called … United States Code.

1. The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

2. The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~Lao-tzu

3. Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~Werner Finck

4. The first myth of management is that it exists. ~ 10. Murphy's Law

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