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administration, and that the public interest suffers
if relief from embarrassing or detrimental conse-
quences.of minute statutory provisions can only
be obtained by an amending statute. The fault
most commonly found with the present practice is
that it augments the powers of bureaucracy and
lends support to its inordinate pretensions.
Statutes are sometimes implemented by Orders
in Council,” the solemn form of which suggests,
even if they are of Departmental origin, that they
are made on the advice of the Government of the
day. More commonly they are implemented by
Departmental orders, rules or regulations, or by
resolutions of Local Authorities where the statutes
are adoptive or permissive, or by by-laws of Local
Authorities made with Departmental approval.
Departmental regulations are, of course, made under
the authority of Departmental Ministers, who are
solely responsible for them, and whose action is
open to criticism in Parliament by way of question,
motion, or debate on Departmental estimates.
Very commonly also they are now issued in accord-
ance with the procedure prescribed by the Rules
Publication Act, 1893, which, except in cases of
emergency, requires notice of proposed rules to be
published for forty days before they are made and
drafts of them to be available for the public, and
provides that any representations or suggestions
made to the Department concerned by any public
body interested shall be taken into consideration by
the Department. It is probable that this procedure
(which was applied to the Board’s regulations by the
Act of 1918) affords better protection to the public