At the end of each of these Parts is a Table showing the modifications to legislation and an Index. Each Table is confined to the instruments in its own Part. The Table gives particulars of those Public General Acts and instruments which have been amended, extended, excluded, repealed or revoked by instruments in the Part. The Index to Part II will be cumulative to both Parts.
4. Part III. At the beginning is a list of the instruments in Part III similar to the lists in Parts I and II. It is followed by the text of the instruments comprising Part III, as in Parts I and II.
At the end of Part III are the features which are required by reg. 10 of the Statutory Instruments Regulations 1947 to be included in the Annual Volume of Statutory Instruments. They cover the instruments in all three Parts.In the order in which they occur in the Volume, they are as follows:
The Classified List of Local Instruments gives particulars, the dates of making, and the S.I. numbers, of all local statutory instruments registered in the S.I. series of the year to which the Annual Volume relates. They are grouped in classes according to their subject matter.
The Tables. "Table A" gives particulars of the Public General Acts of Parliament and "Table B" particulars of statutory and other instruments the operation of which was affected by the instruments appearing in the Volume. They include the appropriate part of the information (amended, repealed, revoked, etc.) already given in the "Table of Modifications to Legislation" in Parts I and II, and corresponding information with respect to the instruments in Part III, but also give particulars of Acts or instruments respectively applied, with or without modification, or restricted, by general instruments throughout the Volume. In addition, Table B gives particulars of general instruments whose operation was affected expressly by Public General Acts of the year in question, or which ceased to operate through becoming spent during that year as a result of legislation of the year.
The Numerical and Issue List shows, in order of S.I. numbers, other particulars of all general statutory instruments and all local instruments which were printed and put on sale by the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament under the provisions of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946(a), during the year, with, in each case, the date of making and the date of first issue by H.M. Stationery Office.
The Index will be cumulative to Parts I and II.
Definition and classification of statutory instruments
5. To determine whether or not any instrument is required to be a statutory instrument, reference must be made to the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, s. 1, the Statutory Instruments Regulations 1947, reg. 2 ( made under's. 8 (1)[1]of that Act) and the Statutory Instruments (Confirmatory Powers) Order 1947[2], arts. 1 and 2 ( made under's. 9 ( 1 ) of the Act).
It will be observed that, by's. 1 (2) of the Act and reg. 2 (1) of the Regulations, the definition of what constitutes a statutory instrument, as respects instruments made under any Act passed before the commencement of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, is governed by the definition of "statutory rules and "rule-making authority" contained in the Rules Publication Act 1893[3], the Act which was repealed and replaced by the Act of 1946.
