Catalogue description Records of the Statutory Publications Office

Details of Division within TS
Reference: Division within TS
Title: Records of the Statutory Publications Office
Description:

Records of the Statutory Publications Office relating to the publication and indexing of statutes.

Papers of the office are in TS 31 (which includes minutes, etc, of the Statute Law Committee). Copies of Local Statutory Rules and Orders and Statutory Instruments are in TS 37. Registers of Statutory Rules and Orders and Statutory Instruments are in TS 76
Date: 1855-2005
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, Statutory Publications Office, 1956-1990

Statute Law Committee, Office to the Editor of the Revised Statutes, Statutory Rules and Orders, etc,, 1868-1947

Statute Law Committee, Statutory Publications Office, 1947-1956
Physical description: 3 series
Publication note:

BRIEF LIST OF STATUTORY PUBLICATIONS Statutes Revised:1st edition, 1235-1878, with additional table of effects, 1879-1885 (published 1870-1885)2nd edition, 1235-1920, with revisions to various dates up to 1929 (published 1888-1929)3rd edition, Statutes 1235-1948 and Church Assembly Measures, 1920-1948 (published 1950) Chronological Table and Index to the Statutes (1869-1947) (published 1870-1949) Chronological Table of the Statues (1951-date) Index to the Statutes (1948-date) Statutes in Force (published 1972-date) Statutory Rules and Orders (1890-1947) Statutory Instruments (1948-date) SI Effects (1952-1964) Numerical Table of SR & Os and SIs (1952-1964) Table of Government Orders (1965-date) Statutory Rules and Orders Revised (known as Statutory Rules and Orders and Statutory Instruments Revised to 31 December 1948): 1st edition (to 1890) published 18962nd edition (to 1903) published 19043rd edition (to 1948) published 1949-1952 Index to Statutory Rules and Orders in Force (various editions 1891-1950) Guide to Government Orders (annual edition 1951-1961) Index to Government Orders (annual edition 1962-date)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Statutory Publications Office known until 1947 as the Office to the Editor of the Revised Statutes, Statutory Rules and Orders, etc, having been established to undertake the publication and indexing of statutes under the authority of the Statute Law Committee appointed by Lord Cairns, as Lord Chancellor, in 1868. When the registration of Statutory Rules and Orders (SR & O) and Statutory Instruments (SI) became compulsory under the Rules Publication Act 1893, this duty became the responsibility of the Editor of Statutory Rules and Orders.

In April 1956, the Office was placed under the control of the Treasury Solicitor and incorporated in his department. Previously, though independent, it was classified under the Treasury. Work in connection with the preparation of Statute Law Revision bills, formerly undertaken in the office, passed to the Consolidation Branch of the Parliamentary Counsel's Office at the time of the transfer. In April 1990 responsibility for the office passed to the Lord Chancellor's Department. The responsibility for the Statutory Publications Office and for statute law revision remained with the Lord Chancellor's Department but that for registration of statutory instruments and other statutory publications was transferred to the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office within the Cabinet Office in 1996.

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