Annual statutes are the acts passed each year by Parliament. Most acts passed every year are amending/repealing acts... They change existing acts.  Only a few are substantive, creating entirely new acts.

Substantive acts, which create entirely new pieces of legislation, essentially appear twice on Justice Laws: once in their “as-passed” form in the “Annual Statutes” section of the site, and again in the “Consolidated Acts” part of the site.

Sometimes, but not always, if a new act also includes sections that repeal or amend of other acts, these sections will be omitted in the “statutes by title” version.

Amending or repealing acts that simply makes changes to pre-existing pieces of legislation only appear once, in the “Annual Statutes” section.

Their content appears in the “Consolidated Acts”, as amendments to other acts, but they themselves, as individual entities, do not.