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 PREFACE

Scope and arrangement of the Volume

1. The Annual Volume of Statutory Instruments is published in pursuance of the Statutory Instruments Regulations 1947 reg. 10. It gives the full text of all statutory instruments registered in the year concerned which were classified as general, and gives particulars of those which were classified as Other instruments are local (as to this classification, see para. 6, below). contained in the Appendix (as to which see para. 3, below ).

2. From the start of the series in 1890 until 1960, the general instruments in the Annual Volume were arranged according to their subject headings. In and since the Annual Volume for 1961, however, they have been arranged according to their S.I. numbers, that is to say, in the order of their registration as statutory instruments. The change has made it possible to publish successive Parts of the Volume as the contents of each are completed, and so to obviate the (unavoidable) delays in publication of the complete Volume previously experienced. Each volume is now in three Parts, containing the instruments registered between 1st January and 30th April, 1st May and 31st August, and 1st September and 31st December respectively, and each part is normally published within four or five months of the closing date for the material included in it.

Contents of the Volume

3. Parts I and II. At the beginning of each of these Parts is a list of the instruments whose text is contained in that Part, showing their S.I. numbers, titles or descriptions, and subject headings. The list is followed by the text of the statutory instruments registered in the relevant period and an Appendix of Instruments not Registered as S.I. issued in that period.

This Appendix contains Orders in Council issued under the royal prerogative or otherwise outside the definition of a statutory instrument, Letters Patent under the Great Seal, and Instructions passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, which relate to the constitutions or the currency of overseas territories, or to appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It also contains all Royal Proclamations which are legislative and instruments (not S.I.) relating to War Pensions.