10. Information as to whether an instrument in any annual volume is still in operation may be obtained from a smaller publication, "Numerical Table, S.R. & O. and S.I.". This table, if kept up to date by means of its Supplements, shows all statutory instruments which were still in operation in England and Wales and in Scotland at 31st December last before the date of publication of the most recent of them. The edition current at the publication of this Volume is the second (H.M. Stationery Office, price 9s. Od., net); it records instruments in force at 31st December, 1958. Supplements, which can be fixed into prepared guards in the binding, are published annually (H.M.S.O., 1s. 3d., net), with particulars of deletions and additions to be made for their respective years.
11. For particulars of the fate of instruments which have ceased to be in operation since 31st December, 1948 (the date of S.R. & 0. and S.I. Revised, Third Edition) and have therefore been removed from the Numerical Table, S.R. & O. and S.I., and also for particulars of any amendments to instruments which are still in operation, reference should be made to another publication, "S.I. Effects" (H.M.S.O.), published annually.
That publication shows which instruments have been revoked, which have been superseded, and which have become spent. Where any instrument has been amended, particulars of the articles, etc., affected are given; a reader who is interested only in particular provisions of the earlier instrument can ascertain from "S.I. Effects" whether or not he need consult the text of the amending instrument at all.
The editions covering the years 1949 to 1958 were cumulative; each reproduced the contents of previous editions as well as its own new material. Accordingly, "S.I. Effects, 1958" shows all annotations for those years. Editions since 1959 are cumulative to each other.
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12. The Annual Volumes of Statutory Instruments are prepared under the direction of the Statute Law Committee.
Any suggestion or communication relating to them should be addressed to the Editor, Statutory Publications Office, Queen Anne's Chambers, 41, Tothill Street, S.W.1.
