Statutory Instruments
Act, 1946
Interpretation. 11.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, any power to make, confirm or approve orders, rules, regulations or other subordinate legislation conferred on the Treasury, the Admiralty, the Board of Trade or any other government department shall be deemed to be conferred on the Minister of the Crown in charge of that department.
(2) If any question arises whether any board, commissioners or other body on whom any such power as aforesaid is conferred are a government department within the meaning of this section, or what Minister of the Crown is in charge of them, that question shall be referred to and determined by the Treasury.
Repeal of 56 & 57 Vict. c. 66 and re-enactment of s. 3 (3) thereof. 12.—(1) The Rules Publication Act, 1893, is hereby repealed.
(2) The publication in the London, Edinburgh or Belfast Gazette of a notice stating that a statutory instrument has been made, and specifying the place where copies thereof may be purchased, shall be sufficient compliance with the provisions of any enactment, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, requiring that instrument to be published or notified in that Gazette.
Short title and extent. 13.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Statutory Instruments Act, 1946.
(2) This Act shall apply to any statutory instrument made by His Majesty in Council or by any Minister of the Crown (not being a rule-making authority within the meaning of the Rules Publication Act (Northern Ireland), 1925) in so far as it extends to Northern Ireland, but except as aforesaid this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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SIR PERCY FAULKNER, K.B.E., C.B.
Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
