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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