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Statutory Rules and Orders. Very numerous Acts of Parliament, especially those passed in recent years, empower the Sovereign in Council, some Govern-ment Department, or Courts of Justice, to make rules, having the same effect as the statute under which they are made, to regulate details left unprovided for by such statute. Thus, there are the Bankruptcy Rules regulating the practice under the Bankruptcy Acts; the Rules of the Supreme Court, regulating the practice of the High Court and the Court of Appeal; Orders of the Ministries of Health, Labour, etc., and Orders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, under the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, and other Acts; and hundreds of other rules, orders, and regulations, in some cases requiring to be laid before Parliament, and in other cases not, and in some cases required to be published in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, and in others not.

The (English) Rules Publication Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 66), directs that all rules made in 1894 and afterwards under an Act of Parliament which relate to any court, or are made by the Sovereign in Council, or the Treasury, or any other Government Department, are to be printed by the King's Printer and sold by him; and with regard to rules which have to be laid before Parliament, but come into operation at once (with certain exceptions), this Act also makes provision for consideration of them in draft by any 'public body' interested, and for the consideration by the authority making the rules of any representations or suggestions made in writing by such public body to such authority. The exceptions are: Certain rules made by the Ministries of Health and Labour, and rules made by the Revenue Departments, or by the Post Office, or by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, under the Diseases of Animals Acts.

See Pulling's Annual Indexes of Statutory Rules and Orders, first published by Governmentin1891, and Collection of Statutory Rules and Orders in Force, published by Government.