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PREFACE . This book contains the statutory rules and orders of a public and general character made during 1924 , and still in force at the end of the year. Similar annual volumes have been published since 1890. For a long time previously Acts of Parliament had provided for the making of Orders in Councii and for delegating to Government departments and other authorities the power to make legislative rules and regulations . But it was not till 1890 that , under the direction of the Statute Law Committee and the editorship of Mr. Alexander Pulling , the yearly output of this delegated legislation was officially collected and made accessible .

Authority for Publication.—Statutory Rules and Orders are now officially registered and published under a system instituted and governed by sections 3 and 4 of the Rules Publication Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 66).[1] These sections are as follows :

3. Printing, Numbering and sale of statutory rules.

(1) All statutory rules made after the thirty-first day of December next after the passing of this Act shall forthwith after they are made be sent to the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament , and shall , in accordance with regulations made by the Treasury with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, be numbered, and (save as provided by the regulations) printed and sold by him.

(2) Any statutory rules may , without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the number so given as above mentioned and the calendar year.

(3) Where any statutory rules are required by any Act to be published or notified in the London , Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette , a notice in the Gazette of the rules having been made , and of the place where copies of them can be purchased , shall be sufficient compliance with the said requirement .

(4) Regulations under this section may provide for the different treatment of statutory rules which are of the nature of public Acts, and of those which are of the nature of local and personal or private Acts; and may determine the classes of cases in which the exercise of a statutory power by any rule-making authority constitutes or does not constitute the making of a statutory rule within the meaning of this section, and may provide for the exemption from this section of any such classes.

(5) In the making of such regulations, each Government department concerned shall be consulted , and due regard had to the views of that department.

4. Definitions

In this Act—

"Statutory rules " means rules, regulations, or byelaws made under any Act of Parliament which (a) relate to any court in the United Kingdom , or to the procedure , practice , costs , or fees therein, or to any fees or matters applying generally throughout England, Scotland, or Ireland , or (b) are made by Her Majesty in Council, the Judicial Committee , the Treasury , the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, or the Lord Lieutenant or the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, or a Secretary of State, the Admiralty , the Board of Trade , the Local Government Board for England or Ireland, the Chief Secretary for Ireland , or any other Government department .

"Rule-making authority" includes every authority authorised to make any statutory rules.

  1. ↑ Ss. 1 and 2 of the Rules Publication Act relate to an entirely different matter, namely the notifying of proposals to make rules (s.1) and the making of provisional rules on the ground of urgency (s.2). Section 1 does not apply to Scotland nor to all English departments; it is sometimes expressly excluded by statute, and in a few cases is expressly applied.
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