PREFACE. Although the legislation of the protracted session of 1906 introduces no startling innovations in the sphere of local government, the Acts are sufficiently numerous and embrace some useful measures. In particular the tendency towards consolidation of the law, as shown by the Alkali, &c., Works Regulation Act, the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, the Open Spaces Act and the Workmen's Compensation Act, is much to be commended. The policy of adding as time rolls on amendment to amendment of any branch of the existing law without consolidating it into one comprehensive measure affords infinite trouble to administrators and cannot be too strongly deprecated. It will be noticed that the provisions of the Census of Production Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Workmen's Compensation Act are expressly made to apply to local authorities. The last mentioned Act practically covers the whole field of employment, and local authorities may find it advisable to protect themselves by insurance against its meshes. The digest contains some notes of cases not given in the ordinary reports and digests, February, 1907. W. H. D. PREFACE TO FIRST ANNUAL VOLUME. New legislation and the reported decisions of the Courts, continually render the most comprehensive text books on local government out of date and deficient in some particulars. Until the gap is filled by new works or editions or by some other means, members and officers of local authorities necessarily experience difficulty in keeping in touch with the law and in grappling with the problems which invariably press for solution when changes take place in the law relating to local government. It is true that legislation of a novel character when of sufficient importance is generally followed at no great length of time by explanatory treatises, but this is seldom so in the case of less important statutes. These may not be dealt with at all, or even if they amend previous Acts, may often have to wait a somewhat prolonged period before their provisions are incorporated in new editions of standard works. The results of cases 704900 decided in the Courts since the publication of any particular text The present work, which is intended to be the first of a series to by the Official Circulars, Orders, or other information which bear upon Acts and other matters relating exclusively to the administrative Each Part has, so far as the subject matter permits, been arranged November, 1899. W. H. D. CORRIGENDUM.-Page 195.-Footnote (1) to be struck out. Each volume since 1899 has also a full classified index. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS of 1906, annotated and explained together with the Official Orders, Regulations, Circulars, ... ... Memorandum of Local Government Board, dated December, 1906. 3 22 53 Circular-Local authorities-Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, ... Education (Provision of Meals) Act, 1906 Circular 552-Local education authorities-Board of Education, Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs (Limits of Error) Regulations, Circular-Local authorities-Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Form of Official Agricultural Analyst's Report ... : |