CONSOLIDATED STATUTES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 4

CONSOLIDATED STATUTES.

AN ANOMALY EXPLAINED. Inconvenience has been caused to tho. legal profession and others by tho fact that though tho now Consolidated Statutes have now legally superseded the Acts which they consolidate, the volumes are pot yet available for purchase. The delay is the more awkward, since various alterations have been made in spme of the enactments comprised. Tho explanation given by tho Government Printing Department fpr the non-issuo of the volumes is that the preliminary indices and analyses are not yet published. The publication of tho gtatufces is the largest work whioh tho Department, has ever been called upon to put through, and it has had to be concluded in tho mjdst of tho session, when parliamentary demands upon tlio printing offico wore heaviest. It was necessary tliat the House glipuld legalise tho Cqusolidated Acts, pven though they were not available for tho publjo, beoaupa many of tho pleasures passed this year are amendments of these statutes, find amendments cpuld not be passed before the roviaed Acts wero validated. Though tho Consolidated Statutes have i=ot been generally available, copies of the unimloxed volumes wore sent to all the judges, pnd ever sinco tho validation of tho work copies of tho separate Acts comprised have been available for purchase. It is expected that the completed volumes, with indices and analyses attached, will bo issued 111 another month. Afterwards a special iudex yolumo will bo issued, containing the analyses of all tho Actp, alphabetically set out, instead of in the ardor of occurrcnco.