Intervention Process

Interventions into the Publication of a Statutory Instrument

The Publisher may correct low impact errors on the author's behalf, at the author's risk, but users are encouraged to correct these errors themselves to ensure accurate and timely publication and to avoid the surcharge for processing a non-valid document.

Departments may request the Publisher to fix low impact errors at the time of submission for registration.  If a submitted SI document fails validation it will be sent back to the Department, and providing the document contains only low impact errors the Department may return the document and request the Publisher to fix these errors which will attract an additional surcharge.

The error message codes associated with low impact errors are shown in the following list.

a00012            e00046            e00107

a00022            e00111            e00109

a00045            e00060            e00112

a00061            e00061            e00113

a00067            e00063            e00119

a00073            e00064            e00120

a00075            e00065            e00121

a00091            e00066            e00122

a00097            e00067            e00124

a00110            e00069            e00126

c00023            e00070            e00127

e00005            e00071            e00129

e00012            e00087            e00130

e00015            e00088            e00131

e00016            e00092            e00132

e00017            e00097            e00133

e00022            e00099            e00136

e00025            e00100            e00137

e00028            e00101            e00140

e00032            e00106            e00143

e00158            e00159           

Interventions into Statutory Instruments to resolve high impact errors can change the visual look of the SI.  Any SI that has high impact errors will be returned to the Department to resolve these.  This ensures consistency is maintained between the signed SI that is made, registered and published.

In exceptional circumstances and at the request of the SI Registrar, the Publisher will resolve high impact errors in templated SIs and provide a PDF version of the document for departmental approval prior to publication.  This intervention and approval process could impact the publication date of the SI and would attract additional charges outside of the templated SI pricing model.

Intervention into XML Conversion of Statutory Instruments

XML conversion is the process used to publish legislation electronically.  Statutory Instruments must be valid to the Crown Legislation Schema which controls the structure of the document before they can be published to legislation.gov.uk.  Users are therefore required to correct any errors and warnings under the guidance of the Publisher’s SI Support Team before submission for registration and publication.  For further information please see "Understanding Electronic Publication" pages.

The Publisher may make interventions into the XML to improve the semantic markup or document functionality where these do not change the visual appearance of the document that has been signed, made, registered and published.

Any intervention that would change the visual appearance of the SI would be agreed in advance with the SI Registrar.