List of statutory rules and orders of the United Kingdom
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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.
1897
County Court (Stannaries Fees) Order 1897 (SR&O 1897/306)
Cork Electric Tramways Order 1897 (SR&O 1897/538)
Zanzibar Order in Council 1897 (SR&O 1897/576)
Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Warrant 1897 (SR&O 1897/721)
Belfast Street Tramways Order 1897 (SR&O 1897/768)
Light Locomotives (Menai Bridge) Order 1897 (SR&O 1897/853)
Dublin and Lucan Electric Railway Order 1897 (SR&O 1897/985)
Dublin Southern District Tramways Order 1897 (SR&O 1897/986)
1898
Order of Secretary of State (No. 5), dated March 28, 1898, relating to Compressed Acetylene in Admixture with Oil-gas. (SR&O 1898/248)
Southern Rhodesia Order in Council 1898 (SR&O 1898/1068)
1899
Local Government (Procedure of Councils) Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/43)
Potteries Light Railways Order 1897 (SR&O 1899/76)
Southern Rhodesia Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/81)
Merthyr Tydvil Light Railway Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/97)
County Courts (Districts) Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/178)
Southern Rhodesia Naturalisation Order in Council 1899 (SR&O 1899/180)
Urban District Councillors and Town Commissioners Ireland Election Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/210)
Union Accounts Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/235)
Kinver Light Railways Order 1898 (SR&O 1899/360)
Dudley and District Light Railways Order 1898 (SR&O 1899/362)
Bradford and Leeds Light Railway Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/577)
West Hartlepool Light Railways Order 1897 (SR&O 1899/633)
Isle of Thanet Light Railways Order 1898 (SR&O 1899/697)
Southend-on-Sea and District Light Railway Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/793)
North Shields Tynemouth and District Light Railways Order 1898 (SR&O 1899/830)
Potteries Light Railways Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/983)
Asylums Accounts Order 1899 (SR&O 1899/999)
Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order 1898 (SR&O 1899/1120)
1900
North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council 1900 (SR&O 1900/89)
Board of Education (Powers) Order in Council 1900 (SR&O 1900/600)
Dublin and Lucan Electric Tramways Order 1900 (SR&O 1900/785)
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.
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