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A note on externally produced documents reproduced on the website
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See later on this page for details of the waiving of Crown copyright by HMSO - eg in respect of Acts and Regulations.

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A note on externally produced documents reproduced on the website

These are newspaper articles, press releases, legislation etc which are on our site.

Methods of reproduction

We've tried to reproduce them as faithfully as possible, using the following methods :

In some cases we've been supplied with the document in electronic form (such as email attachments). So the copy on our site should be identical to the original.
In other cases we've used copy-and-paste to copy from the original on the Internet into our web design software. This also should ensure that our copy is identical.
When the above methods weren't possible, we've scanned a hardcopy of the document and either :
- put it on the website as an image (eg the 1939 Act), or
- used optical character recognition (OCR) software to convert it into electronic form. We've checked the output against the original.
With very small documents or extracts, we've often just retyped them. Again, we've checked the output against the original.

Authenticity

Computer keyboard (James Gardiner/SCRAN) The copies on our website should be the same as the originals, apart from the following :

Extracts - Some of our documents are only extracts. If so, we state this clearly.
Errors in the originals - Where we have spotted crucial typo errors in the originals of the documents (telephone numbers, web addresses etc) we have corrected them if appropriate (in accordance with normal practice), and sometimes added a note to say we've done it.
Markup - In a few cases we have emboldened or coloured a few key words in the text to make it easier to read. In each case we've added a note to say what we've done.
Wrapping of lines (within paragraphs) - This may be different to the original.
Anonymising - In a few instances we have anonymised certain items such as names, places and telephone numbers - see About us for details.

Waiving of Crown copyright by HMSO

Acts and Regulations (and other central government publications) are © Crown copyright. The copyright is administered by OPSI / Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).

However, copyright has been waived in the public interest, and HMSO allow (and encourage) people to copy/reproduce Acts and Regulations (and many other documents), subject to certain minor provisos. See their website www.opsi.gov.uk for details (eg "Crown Copyright Policy Guidance"). So you don't need permission to :

photocopy them
reproduce (publish) them in printed publications or on websites