List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom

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.

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1897

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

1898

Southern Rhodesia Order in Council 1898 (SR&O 1898/1068)
St. George and Hanham Light Railway Order 1898 (SR&O 1898/576)

1899

Southern Rhodesia Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/81)
Southern Rhodesia Naturalisation Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/180)
Bradford and Leeds Light Railway Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/577)
Merthyr Tydvil Light Railway Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/97)
Southend-on-Sea and District Light Railway Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/793)

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)

1916

Aliens Restriction Order 1916 (SR&O 1916/122)

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)
Aliens Order 1919 (SR&O 1919/1077)
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)
Sand Hutton Light Railway Order 1920 (SR&O 1920/807)
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)
Ministry of Transport (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/994)
Ministry of Transport (Metropolitan District Railway) Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/995)
Kenya Colony Order In Council 1921 (SR&O 1921/1135)
Ministry of Transport (Great Western Railway) Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/1306)
Ministry of Transport (South Eastern Railway) Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/1307)
Spenborough Urban District Council Gas Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/1373)
Order in Council under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 fixing Appointed Day for certain provisions relating to the Supreme and Appeal Courts, Judges and Offices (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)
Southend-on-Sea Corporation Light Railways (Temporary Increase of Charges) Interim Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/829)
Walthamstow Urban District Council Light Railways (Temporary Increase of Charges) Interim Order 1921 (SR&O 1921/1683)

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)
Ryde Gas Order 1923 (SR&O 1923/350)
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)
East Surrey Gas Order 1928 (SR&O 1928/1019)
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 1929/993)
Air Navigation (Amendment) Guernsey Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/1019)
Prescot Gas Order 1929 (SR&O 1929/1099)

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

Post Office Register (Trustee Savings Banks) Regulations 1932 (SR&O 1932/11)
County of Middlesex Light Railway (Extension) Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/38)
Parts of Holland (Alteration of Districts and Parishes) Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/183)
Sand Hutton Light Railway Company (Winding-Up) Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/310)
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)
Liverpool Gas Order 1932 (SR&O 1932/1089)

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

River Lee Conservancy Catchment Board (Abolition or Internal Drainage Districts) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/92)
Apple Capsid (Essex) (Amendment) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/244)
Docks Regulations 1934 (SR&O 1934/279)
Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation Acts Revocation Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/282)
River Blyth Navigation Act Revocation Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/283)
Wallasey Corporation Tramways (Cesser of Power) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/354)
Wincham Light Railway Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/362)
Fruit Tree Pests (Isle of Ely) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/631)
River Waveney (Extinguishment of Navigation Rights) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/673)
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)
Fruit Tree Pests (Cambridgeshire) Order 1934 (SR&O 1934/1314)
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

Wandsworth and District Gas Order 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) 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)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Gas Order 1937 (SR&O 1937/1186)
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)
Control of Timber (No. 1) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1031)^[1]^[2]
Ministry of National Service Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1118)
Control of Timber (No. 2) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1183)^[1]^[2]
Control of Timber (No. 3) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1217)^[1]^[2]
Defence (Armed Forces) Regulations 1939 (SR&O 1939/1304)
Control of Timber (No. 4) Order 1939 (SR&O 1939/1329)^[1]^[2]
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)

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)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hansard, Timber debate on Thursday 23 November 1939, accessed on 24 June 2024
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d House of Lords, James B. Fraser & Co v. Denny, Mott & Dickson, delivered on 19 May 1944, accessed on 24 June 2024
^ "The House to House Collections Regulations, 1947".

[CTO1-1] Hansard, Timber debate on Thursday 23 November 1939, accessed on 24 June 2024

[CTO2-2] House of Lords, James B. Fraser & Co v. Denny, Mott & Dickson, delivered on 19 May 1944, accessed on 24 June 2024

[3] "The House to House Collections Regulations, 1947".

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