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 1. Notice of partial repeals, where important, should be taken in the Index by entering a reference to the repealing Act without further comment. This rule does not extend to entering repeals made by the Statute Law Revision Acts.

2. Wherever practicable, the operation of successive Acts in relation to the same subject-matter should be stated; for example, 13 & 14 Vict. c. 37. extends the Juvenile Offenders Acts (10 & 11 Vict. c. 82.) to offenders of 16 years of age; such an extension should be set out in the Index.

3. Wherever practicable, the particular sections of an Act, the effect of which is stated in the reference, should be set out, instead of a reference being made to the whole Act.

In pursuance of these instructions, the Index has been re-arranged and in various parts improved by Mr. W. L. Selfe, of the Chancery Bar, as Editor of this edition, and the portions under the following headings have been recast by the several gentlemen at the Bar named opposite the headings.

In the Index the abbreviation "&c." used thus—"s. 10., &c."—indicates that sect. 10. of the Act referred to is the principal or first section relating to the subject specified, and that other sections of the Act relate to the same subject;