The Local Government Act, 1894

to delay the publication of the present Edition until the issue of more permanent Election Orders.

The notes to the Act itself have been revised throughout; some of those which dealt with the transitory provisions of the Act and were in consequence themselves of a transitory nature, have been omitted. The Introduction has also been revised in such a way as to give a complete summary up to the present date of the general effect of the Act and of the machinery by which it has been brought into operation.

A. M.

TEMPLE.

November, 1894.

T. R. C. D.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

IN preparing this Edition of the Local Government Act, 1894, the Authors have found their task rendered very arduous by reason of the length to which the method of legislation by reference to previous enactments has been carried in this measure. After careful consideration, it has been thought that the object of the present Work would be better achieved by a full annotation of the text than by setting out the incorporated Acts in full. Accordingly, those provisions of other enactments which bear upon the present Act have in all cases been given in the notes to the section to which they apply, and, wherever it is necessary, to the full understanding of the text that the words of an applied enactment should be given, it has been set out in extenso. By this method it is hoped that the meaning of the provisions of this Act, when combined with those of incorporated Acts, will have been made intelligible.

Many of the provisions of the Act come into immediate operation; the Authors have, therefore, aimed at placing their interpretation of it in the hands of those whom it affects at as early a date as possible, but they have considered speedy publication a secondary matter as compared with a deliberate examination and adequate. explanation of the many points of difficulty inherent in a subject of such complexity.

Since this Act received the Royal assent (on the 5th of March last), the Local Government Board have issued Circulars relating to the effect of the measure upon different local authorities. They have also made Orders under some of the powers conferred upon them by the Act. The Circulars and Orders will be found collected in the Appendix. In one case, an important Order has been set out in a note (see section 36).

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