List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom explained

List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom.

Statutory rules and orders were the predecessor of statutory instruments and they formed the secondary legislation of England, Scotland and Wales prior to 1948 and the coming into force of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946. They are still used in Northern Ireland, see the list of statutory rules of Northern Ireland and the list of orders in Council for Northern Ireland.

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	1905	1915	1925	1935
	1906		1926	1936	1946
	1907	1917	1927	1937	1947
1898	1908	1918	1928	1938
1899		1919	1929	1939

1897

• Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant 1897 (SR&O 1897/721)

1898

• Southern Rhodesia Order in Council 1898 (SR&O 1898/1068)

1899

• Southern Rhodesia Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/81)
• Southern Rhodesia Naturalisation Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/180)

1900

• North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council 1900 (SR&O 1900/89)

1901

• Rules of the Supreme Court, November 1900 (SR&O 1901/1)
• Penge (Supplemental) Drainage Scheme 1901 (SR&O 1901/210)
• London Government (Borough of Battersea) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/211)
• London Government (Borough of Bethnal Green) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/212)
• London Government (Borough of Camberwell) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/213)
• London Government (Borough of Deptford) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/214)
• London Government (Borough of Fulham) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/215)
• London Government (Borough of Hammersmith) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/216)
• London Government (Borough of Hampstead) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/217)
• London Government (Borough of Lewisham) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/218)
• London Government (Borough of Lambeth) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/219)
• London Government (Borough of Poplar) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/220)
• London Government (Borough of Shoreditch) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/221)
• London Government (Borough of Wandsworth) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/222)
• London Government (Borough of Woolwich) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/223)
• London County (Borough of Holborn) (Lincoln's Inn) Order 1901 (SR&O 1901/262)
• London Government (Borough of Bermondsey) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/264)
• London Government (Borough of Chelsea) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/265)
• London Government (Borough of Finsbury) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/266)
• London Government (Borough of Greenwich) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/267)
• London Government (Borough of Hackney) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/268)
• London Government (Borough of Holborn) Order in Council 1901 or Borough of Holborn (St. Andrew Holborn-above-Bars and St. George the Martyr) Scheme (No. 1) Order 1901 (SR&O 1901/269)
• London Government (Borough of Islington) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/270)
• London Government (Borough of Kensington) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/271)
• London Government (Borough of St. Marylebone) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/272)
• London Government (Borough of Paddington) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/273)
• London Government (Borough of St. Pancras) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/274)
• London Government (Borough of Southwark) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/275)
• London Government (Borough of Stepney) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/276)
• London Government (Borough of Stoke Newington) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/277)
• London Government (City of Westminster) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/278)
• London Registration Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/279)
• City of Westminster (Close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter) Scheme) 1901 (SR&O 1901/537)
• Borough of St. Pancras (Supplemental) Scheme 1901 (SR&O 1901/538)
• Borough of Holborn (Gray's Inn) Scheme 1901 (SR&O 1901/539)
• Borough of Stepney (Tower of London) Scheme 1901 (SR&O 1901/540)
• Barotziland—North-Western Rhodesia Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1901/567)
• Order in Council applying the provisions of the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act 1883, as amended, to the Republic of Honduras (SR&O 1901/799)
• East Africa (Lands) Order in Council 1901 (SR&O 1901/661)
• Home Work Order of 11th December 1901 (SR&O 1901/983)
• Court of Burgesses Scheme 1901 (SR&O 1901/811)
• Railway Regulation (Traffic) Order 1901 (SR&O 1901/1041)

1902

• Derwent Valley Light Railway Order 1902 (SR&O 1902/168)
• Prevention of Accidents Rules 1902 (SR&O 1902/616)
• East Africa Order in Council 1902 (SR&O 1902/661)

1905

• Wool, Goat-Hair and Camel-Hair Regulations 1905 (SR&O 1905/1293)

1906

• Flax and Tow Spinning and Weaving Regulations 1906 (SR&O 1906/177)
• Locomotives and Waggons (Used on Lines and Sidings) Regulations 1906 (SR&O 1906/679)
• Order of the Board of Trade, Dated July 30, 1906 Substituting a new Table A for that contained in the First Schedule to the Companies Act 1862 (SR&O 1906/596)

1907

• Derwent Valley Light Railway (Transfer, &c.) Order 1907 (SR&O 1907/353)
• Hemp Spinning and Weaving Regulations 1907 (SR&O 1907/660)
• Horsehair Regulations 1907 (SR&O 1907/984)

1908

• East India Wool Regulations 1908 (SR&O 1908/1287)
• Electricity Regulations 1908 (SR&O 1908/1312)
• Foreign and Colonial Post (Insured Boxes) Warrant 1908 (SR&O 1908/1313)

1911

• Northern Rhodesia Order in Council 1911 (SR&O 1911/438)

1912

• Public Trustee Rules 1912 (SR&O 1912/348)

1914

• Order in Council applying the Colonial Probates Act 1892 to the Union of South Africa (SR&O 1914/144)
• Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations 1914 (SR&O 1914/1234)

1915

• Official Secrets (Commonwealth of Australia) Order in Council 1915 (SR&O 1915/1199)
• Indictment Rules 1915 (SR&O 1915/1235)

1917

• Tin or Terne Plates Manufacture Welfare Order 1917 (SR&O 1917/1035)

1918

• Tanning (Two-Bath Process) Welfare Order 1918 (SR&O 1918/368)
• Dyeing (Use of Bichromate of Potassium or Sodium) Welfare Order 1918 (SR&O 1918/369)
• Air Force (Application of Enactments) (No. 2) Order 1918 (SR&O 1918/548)
• Glass Bottle, etc. Manufacture Welfare Order 1918 (SR&O 1918/558)

1919

• Order of Secretary of State (No. 9) of 23 June 1919 (SR&O 1919/809)
• Fruit Preserving Welfare Order 1919 (SR&O 1919/1136)

1920

• Aliens Order 1920 (SR&O 1920/448)
• Laundries Welfare Order 1920 (SR&O 1920/654)
• Gut Scraping, Tripe Dressing, etc. Welfare Order 1920 (SR&O 1920/1437)
• Herring Curing (Norfolk and Suffolk) Welfare Order 1920 (SR&O 1920/1662)
• Kenya (Annexation) Order in Council 1920 (SR&O 1920/2342)
• Kenya Protectorate Order in Council 1920 (SR&O 1920/2343)

1921

• Glass Bevelling Welfare Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/288)
• Order in Council fixing "Appointed Days" for certain purposes under the Government of Ireland Act. (SR&O 1921/533)
• Kenya Colony Order In Council 1921 (SR&O 1921/1135)
• SR&O 1921/1527
• Regulations under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886, as to claims for compensation. (SR&O 1921/1536)
• Celluloid (Manufacture etc.) Regulations 1921 (SR&O 1921/1825)
• Aerated Waters Regulations 1921 (SR&O 1921/1932)
• Hollow-ware and Galvanising Welfare Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/2032)
• Hides and Skins Regulations 1921 (SR&O 1921/2076)

1922

• Indiarubber Regulations 1922 (SR&O 1922/329)
• Doncaster Corporation Light Railways (Extension) Order 1922 (SR&O 1922/449)
• Chemical Works Regulations 1922 (SR&O 1922/731)
• Woodworking Machinery Regulations 1922 (SR&O 1922/1196)

1923

• Aliens Order 1923 (SR&O 1923/326)
• Irish Free State (Consequential Adaptation of Enactments) Order 1923 (SR&O 1923/405)
• Rotherham Gas (Charges) Order 1923 (SR&O 1923/749)
• Flamborough North Sea Landing Harbour Order 1923 (SR&O 1923/1385)

1924

• Northern Rhodesia Order in Council 1924 (SR&O 1924/324)
• National Library of Wales (Delivery of Books) Regulations 1924 (SR&O 1924/400)

1925

• Docks Regulations 1925 (SR&O 1925/231)
• Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order 1925 (SR&O 1925/290)
• Hope Harbour Order 1925 (SR&O 1925/576)
• Aliens Order 1925 (SR&O 1925/760)
• Grinding of Metals (Miscellaneous Industries) Regulations 1925 (SR&O 1925/904)
• Grinding of Cutlery and Edge Tools Regulations 1925 (SR&O 1925/1089)

1926

• Benefices Rules 1926 (SR&O 1926/357)
• Supreme Court Documents (Production) Rules 1926 (SR&O 1926/461)
• Herring Curing (Scotland) Welfare Order 1926 (SR&O 1926/535) (S24)

1927

• Isles of Scilly Order 1927 (SR&O 1927/59)
• Bakehouses Welfare Order 1927 (SR&O 1927/191)
• Coroners (Orders as to Districts) Rules 1927 (SR&O 1927/343)
• Herring Curing Welfare Order 1927 (SR&O 1927/813)
• Sacks (Cleaning and Repairing) Welfare Order 1927 (SR&O 1927/860)
• Biscuit Factories Welfare Order 1927 (SR&O 1927/872)

1928

• Manufacture of Cinematograph Film Regulations 1928 (SR&O 1928/82)
• Horizontal Milling Machines Regulations 1928 (SR&O 1928/548)
• France (Extradition) Order in Council 1928 (SR&O 1928/575)
• Order in Council under section 13 (2) of the Currency and Bank Notes Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 13) as to the commencement of the Act (SR&O 1928/897)
• Housing Acts (Revision of Contributions) Order 1928 (SR&O 1928/1039)

1929

• Cotton Cloth Factories Regulations (SR&O 1929/300)
• Tunbridge Wells Gas Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/346)
• Oil Cake Welfare Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/534)
• Petroleum-spirit (Motor Vehicles, &c.) Regulations 1929 (SR&O 1929/952)
• Wombwell Gas (Charges) Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/961)
• Petroleum (Carbide of Calcium) Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/992)
• Petroleum (Mixtures) Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/9936

1930

• Post Office Register (Trustee Savings Banks) Regulations 1930 (SR&O 1930/40)
• Cement Works Welfare Order 1930 (SR&O 1930/94)
• Rawmarsh Gas Order 1930 (SR&O 1930/115)
• Rawmarsh Gas (Charges) Order 1930 (SR&O 1930/170)
• Tanning Welfare Order 1930 (SR&O 1930/312)

1931

• Shipbuilding Regulations 1931 (SR&O 1931/133)
• Refractory Materials Regulations 1931 (SR&O 1931/359)
• Chromium Plating Regulations 1931 (SR&O 1931/455)
• Wombwell Gas Order 1931 (SR&O 1931/646)
• Gas Cylinders (Conveyance) Regulations 1931 (SR&O 1931/679)
• Sugar Factories Welfare Order 1931 (SR&O 1931/684)
• Southgate and District Gas Order 1931 (SR&O 1931/753)
• North Sunderland Harbour Order 1931 (SR&O 1931/928)

1932

• SR&O 1932/183
• Post Office Register (Trustee Savings Banks) Regulations 1932 (SR&O 1932/11)
• Rotherham Gas Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/507)
• Staithes Harbour Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/630)
• Rotherham Gas (No. 2) Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/958)

1933

• Portugal (Extradition) Order in Council 1933 (SR&O 1933/678)
• Milk Marketing Scheme 1933 (SR&O 1933/789)
• Alkali, Works Regulation Order (Scotland) 1933 (SR&O 1933/878)
• North Norfolk Rivers Catchment Board (Stiffkey River Drainage District) Order 1933 (SR&O 1933/933)
• Benefices (Purchase of Rights of Patronage) Rules 1933 (SR&O 1933/1148)

1934

• SR&O 1934/92
• Docks Regulations 1934 (SR&O 1934/279)
• Romney and Denge Marsh Main Drains Catchment Board (Romney Marsh Level, Denge and Southbrooks and Level of New Romney Internal Drainage Districts) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/1053)
• London Cab Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/1346)
• North Norfolk Rivers Catchment Board (River Burn Drainage District) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/1474)

1935

• Borough of Barnsley (Scale of Water Charges) Order 1935 (SR&O 1935/588)
• Switzerland (Extradition) Order in Council 1935 (SR&O 1935/676)

1936

• SR&O 1936/272
• Denmark (Extradition) Order in Council 1936 (SR&O 1936/405)
• Inland Post Warrant 1936 (SR&O 1936/618)
• County Court Rules 1936 (SR&O 1936/626) L17
• Wandsworth and District Gas (No. 2) Special Order 1936 (SR&O 1936/783)
• Doncaster, Rotherham and Wakefield Extension Order 1936 (SR&O 1936/1127)

1937

• Government of India (Adaptation of Acts of Parliament) Order 1937 (SR&O 1937/230)
• Order in Council (No. 30) of 2 February 1937 (SR&O 1938/54)

1938

• Kiers Regulations 1938 (SR&O 1938/106)
• Epizootic Lymphangitis Order 1938 (SR&O 1938/193)
• Glanders or Farcy Order 1938 (SR&O 1938/228)
• Factories Act (Docks, Building and Engineering Construction, etc.) Modification Regulations 1938 (SR&O 1938/610)
• Sanitary Accommodation Regulations 1938 (SR&O 1938/611)
• Hull Gas Order 1938 (SR&O 1938/711)
• London-Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Trunk Road (Cavendish Bridge and Shardlow Diversion) Order 1938 (SR&O 1938/1244)
• Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (Burley-in-Wharfedale and Maple Grange Bypass) Order 1938 (SR&O 1938/1260)
• County of York, West Riding and County Borough of Sheffield (Alteration of Boundaries) Order 1938 (SR&O 1938/1596)

1939

• London-Fishguard Trunk Road (Haverfordwest By-pass) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/377)
• Cinematograph Film Stripping Regulations 1939 (SR&O 1939/571)
• Rhondda Gas Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/798)
• Huddersfield Gas Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/801)
• Iceland (Extradition) Order in Council 1939 (SR&O 1939/825)
• Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (SR&O 1939/927)
• Defence (General) Regulations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/978)
• Ministry of National Service Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1118)
• Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations 1939 (SR&O 1939/1304)
• Defence (Summer Time) Regulations 1939 (SR&O 1939/1379)
• Defence (Finance) Regulations 1939 (SR&O 1939/1620)
• Defence (General) Regulations (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1681)
• Control of Timber Orders, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4.^{[1] [2]}

1940

• Control of Employment (Advertisements) Order 1940 (SR&O 1940/522)
• Undertakings (Restriction on Engagement) Order (SR&O 1940/877)
• Dock Labour (Compulsory Registration) Order 1940 (SR&O 1940/1013)
• Defence (Administration of Justice) Regulations 1940 (SR&O 1940/1028)
• Defence (Trading with the Enemy) Regulations 1940 (SR&O 1940/1092)
• Defence (General) Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1940 (SR&O 1940/1134)
• Conditions of Employment and National Arbitration Order (SR&O 1940/1305)
• Factories (Medical and Welfare Services) Order 1940 (SR&O 1940/1325)
• Industrial Registration Order 1940 (SR&O 1940/1459)
• Factories (Canteens) Order 1940 (SR&O 1940/1993)
• Compressed Gas Cylinders (Fuel for Motor Vehicles) Regulations 1940 (SR&O 1940/2009)

1941

• Docks (Provision of Canteens) Order 1941 (SR&O 1941/202)
• Industrial Registration (No. 1) Order 1941 (SR&O 1941/239)
• Post Office Register (Trustee Savings Banks) Regulations 1941 (SR&O 1941/253)
• Essential Work (General Provisions) Order 1941 (SR&O 1941/302)
• Registration for Employment Order (SR&O 1941/368)
• Merchant Navy Order 1941 (SR&O 1941/634)
• Dock Labour Order 1941 (SR&O 1941/1440)
• Registration of Boys and Girls Order 1941 (SR&O 1941/2146)

1942

• Employment of Women (Control of Engagement) Order 1942 (SR&O 1942/100)
• Emergency Powers (Defence), Food (Wine and Spirits) Order 1942 (SR&O 1942/1271)
• Building and Engineering Works of Construction (Young Persons) Order 1942 (SR&O 1942/2269)
• British Seamen's Identity Cards Order 1942 (SR&O 1942/2681)

1943

• Nurses and Midwives (Registration for Employment) Order 1943 (SR&O 1943/511)
• Control of Engagement (Directed Persons) Order 1943 (SR&O 1943/651)
• Welsh Courts (Oaths and Interpreters) Rules 1943 (SR&O 1943/683)
• Control of Employment (Notice of Termination of Employment) Order 1943 (SR&O 1943/1173)

1944

• Coalmining (Training and Medical) Order 1944 (SR&O 1944/7)
• Electricity (Factories Act) Special Regulations 1944 (SR&O 1944/739)
• River Great Ouse Catchment Board (Little Thetford Internal Drainage District) Order 1943 (SR&O 1944/1181)
• Wages Board (Unlicensed Place of Refreshment) Order 1944 (SR&O 1944/1399)

1946

• Patent Fuel Manufacture (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1946 (SR&O 1946/258)
• Aliens Order 1946 (SR&O 1946/395)
• Post Office Register (Trustee Savings Banks) Regulations 1946 (SR&O 1946/460)
• Singapore Order-in-Council 1946 (SR&O 1946/462)
• Wages Board (Unlicensed Place of Refreshment) (Amendment) Order 1946 (SR&O 1946/743)
• Prosecution of Offences Regulations 1946 (SR&O 1946/1467)

1947

• Patents Rules 1947 (SR&O 1947/484)
• London-Fishguard Trunk Road (Haverfordwest-Cardigan Road Junction Improvements) Order 1947 (SR&O 1947/1433)
• Gas Cylinders (Conveyance) Regulations 1947 (SR&O 1947/1594)
• Wages Board (Unlicensed Place of Refreshment) (Amendment) Order 1947 (SR&O 1947/1731)
• National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations 1947 (SR&O 1947/1755)
• Forth Pilotage Order 1947 (SR&O 1947/1938)
• Control of Engagement Order 1947 (SR&O 1947/2021)
• Pottery (Health) Special Regulations 1947 (SR&O 1947/2161)
• County Court Districts (Newcastle Emlyn) Order 1947 (SR&O 1947/2262)
• House to House Collections Regulations 1947 (SR&O 1947/2662)^[3]
• Lee Conservancy Catchment Board (Additional Functions) Regulations 1947 (SR&O 1947/2797)

Notes and References

1. [Hansard]
2. House of Lords, James B. Fraser & Co v. Denny, Mott & Dickson, delivered on 19 May 1944, accessed on 24 June 2024
3. Web site: The House to House Collections Regulations, 1947.