LIST OF PLATES. (These all form part of the title " MINES (COAL MINES ACT) (Safety Lamps)"). Safety Lamps Order of the 13th December, 1919. Plate 1.-The M.L. and S. Lamp Facing Page 1109 1112 1113 4.-"C.E.A.G." Miners' Electric Safety Lamp, Bull's Eye Type ... 1114 283283 THE arrangement of the matter in these volumes and in those for each of the years 1894 to 1918 inclusive, as well as the authority under which they are published, differ from those of the previous annual volumes of Statutory Rules and Orders in consequence of the passing of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, ss. 3 and 4 of which are as follows: and sale of 3.-(1.) All statutory rules made after the thirty-first day of Printing, December next after the passing of this Act shall forthwith numbering, after they are made be sent to the Queen's Printer of Acts of statutory Parliament, and shall, in accordance with regulations made by rules. 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 rulemaking 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. In this Act 66 Statutory rules" means rules, regulations, or byelaws made Definitions. 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. (9634-15.) Wt. 250 8/20 H. St. G. 10 a Regulations were made under section 3 by the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, and will be found at p. 415 of the Volume for 1894. The Statute Law Committee, through whom the former volumes were published, having ceased to be responsible in the matter, the present volumes are edited (as were the volumes for the years 1894 to 1918) on behalf of the King's Printer of Acts of Parliament, with the advice of a Committee appointed by the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons. For the past eight years the increase in the number and bulk of the Statutory Rules and Orders of a public and general character have been such as to prevent their reproduction in a single volunie of convenient size. The Rules and Orders of 1919 have therefore been distributed into 2 volumes, viz., Vol. I. comprises the titles" Administration" to "Munitions of War"; and Vol. II. comprising the titles "National Debt" to Welsh Church." The contents of the volumes are necessarily compiled in agreement with the requirements of the Act and regulations. Although (according to the Regulations) (No. 3) the plan of the previous volumes of Statutory Rules and Orders has been adopted as a practical guide for the new volumes, yet in some cases (e.g., those coming within Regulation 2 and Regulation 13) documents which would have been printed under the former plan have been omitted from the present issue. The volumes are, like its predecessors, strictly limited to Statutory Rules which are authorised by specific Acts of Parliament, (a) and with one exception does not extend to any orders, rules, or regulations which are made independently of any statutory power. The exception is that the Editor has been authorised to add an Appendix containing certain Orders in Council, Letters Patent, &c., which although not made in pursuance of a statutory power have legislative effect in parts of the British dominions. The text of the volumes are also limited to Rules and Orders of public and general interest, and do not contain those of a local, personal, or temporary character. In accordance with Regulation 5, the distinction between public and local Orders follows in the main the distinction recognised between those two classes of Acts. The Public and General Rules and Orders forming the text are grouped under effective titles which are so far as possible identical with the titles employed in the "Index to the Statutes in Force" (of which a new edition is annually published covering (a) The volume does not therefore comprise Rules and Orders made not directly under Act but under Statutory Rules or Orders such as the Defence of the Realm Regulations. See Note at p. 242 of this Volume. V as these volumes do, the legislation to the last day of the year) and in the Index to Statutory Powers and Rules and Orders in Force," which is published periodically and of which a new edition covering to December 31, 1919, has now been published. At the end of Vol. II. a Classified List (framed on the same plan as that adopted in the Classified List of Local Acts hitherto printed at the end of each year's Volume of Public and General Statutes) is given of the Orders of a Local character made during 1919 a list of Temporary Statutory Rules which have ben excluded from publication in the volumes under Regulation 12, an Index to the Orders of a public and general character made during 1919, to the Orders in the Addenda and in the Appendix and to the headings of the classified list of local Orders; and a Table showing the effect of the Statutory Rules and Orders of 1919 on Acts of Parliament or on the Orders of a public and general character of the current or of previous years. In the 1919 Volumes (as in those for 1914-1918) information as to the Statutory Rule and Order legislation by each Government Department is given in the General Index (Vol. II.) instead of as heretofore in a separate preliminary Table. All the Public and General Orders of 1919, which were in force on December 31st of that year, are printed at length in these volumes. (a) Every Public and General Statutory Rule and Order and certain of the Local Orders enumerated in the Classified List (b) have also been put on sale by the King's Printer in a separate form and the number given to the Order, in accordance with the Regulations (No. 6), is printed on each Order in addition to the calendar year of registration. Orders which relate to procedure or fees in Courts in England and Wales bear also a second number, prefixed by the letter "L,” denoting that they form part of the Legal Series. All Orders relating solely to Scotland bear a second number prefixed by the letter S." denoting that they form part of the Scottish Series. Copies of the Orders so put on sale can be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway, W.C. 2, by ordering them by their numbers, or as regards the Legal, or Scottish Series, either by these numbers, or by the second numbers, or by ordering the whole of a series. The Documentary Evidence Acts as extended to various new Ministries apply to nearly all Statutory Rules and Orders: therefore the copies of all Statutory Rules and Orders to which those Acts so apply printed in these Volumes, and also the copies of Statutory Rules and Orders as put on sale in separate form, are under those Acts receivable in evidence. (a) With the exception of a few cases where superseding Orders of 1920 have been included. (b) A note will be found at the head of each class in this list stating whether the Orders enumerated therein have, or have not, been put on sale. |