ABSTRACT
There is no rule of law that requires an Act of Parliament to have the coat of arms and the regnal year printed on it. The form used in Britain used to display the coat of arms and have the regnal year below it. Today the regnal year is no longer used. Instead under the coat of arms there is the name of the statute and the number of the Act in the statutes passed in the particular calendar year, thus:
It is usual for a coat of arms to appear at the beginning of an Act of Parliament. However, the fact that it does appear (or that it does not appear) at the beginning of an Act of Parliament does not in any way affect either the meaning or the legal effect of that Act of Parliament.
