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by zepn 1969 days ago
This is my (basic, lay) understanding of how changes to UK law happen, as well.

For example, here is a collection of "Statement of changes in Immigration Rules: 1994 to 2020": https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-...

If you click on the latest document, "accessible" version, you'll find paragraphs such as the following:

  Changes to the Introduction
  Intro1. In paragraph 6.2, after the definition of “English language course”, insert:
  “ “EU national” in Appendix T5 (Temporary Worker) International
  Agreement Worker means a person who is a national of: Austria, Belgium,
  Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
  Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
  Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden; and who is not also a British citizen.”.

  Changes to Part 7
  7.1. For the second paragraph 276BB1(vi)(d), substitute:
  “(e) the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the
  Department for International Development or the Foreign, Commonwealth
  and Development Office has determined should qualify for relocation under
  the ex-gratia redundancy / resignation package, including confirmation that
  they served ‘on frontline duties outside the wire in Helmand’.”.
Anyone interpreting this law (i.e. lawyers) does not have the "latest" version to hand; they have to stack successive changes.

There are other complications, which I can't recall, but I dearly wish someone would do this for UK law.

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Fascinating. Is there nothing in the UK like the US Code?

https://www.govregs.com/uscode