British Official Publications

List of Illustrations

Preface


1. British Parliamentary Government

The Constitution

Supremacy of Parliament

Powers of the Crown

The House of Lords: Membership, Procedure and Officers, Functions and Reform

The House of Commons: Membership, Powers, Procedure

The Prime Minister and the Cabinet.


2. Official Publications: Classification and Indexes

Parliamentary or Non-Parliamentary? Official Indexes

Non-Official Indexes

Guides to Official Publications


3. Parliamentary Proceedings

Order Paper of the House of Commons

Votes and Proceedings

Division Lists

Bills

The Blue Paper

Journals of the House of Commons

Minutes of Proceedings of the House of Lords

Journals of the House of Lords


4. Commons and Lords Papers

House of Commons Papers

House of Lords Papers


5. Command Papers

Nature and Scope

Numbering

Concordance of Command Papers

State Papers: Treaty Series, Country Series, Miscellaneous Series

Royal Commissions and Tribunals of Inquiry


6. Royal Commissions

Character and Purpose

Alphabetical List of Royal Commissions, 1900-72


7. Bills

Introduction

Drafting

Stages: First Reading, Second Reading, Committee Stage, Report Stage, Third Reading

Lords Stage, Consideration of Lords Amendments

Versions of a Bill

Citation of Bills

Records of the Passage of Bills

Indexes

Outlawries Bill


8. Parliamentary Debates

1066-1803

History of Hansard

Officiality of Hansard

Lords Debates

Form of Citations

Present-Day Reporting Practice

Broadcasting of Proceedings in Parliament

Using Hansard

The Queen's Speech

The Budget

Divisions

Parliamentary Questions

Digest of Debates

Standing Committee Debates


9. Acts and Measures

Royal Assent

Types of Acts

Parts of an Act

Citation of Acts

Table of Regnal Years

Editions of the Acts

Codification

Official Indexes

Nonofficial Indexes

General Synod Measures


10. Delegated Legislation and Administrative Tribunals

Delegated Legislation: Purpose and Nature, Numbering and Classification, Annual Volumes, Revised Editions, Official Indexes, Halsbury's Statutory Instruments

Administrative Tribunals


11. Committees and Tribunals of Inquiry

Departmental Committees

Working Parties

Tribunals of Inquiry

Select Alphabetical List of Departmental Committees, Working Parties, Tribunals of Inquiry, etc., 1900-72


12. Non-Parliamentary Publications

Introduction

Abstract from 1967 Official Catalog

Green Papers


13. Reference Books

(Arranged by Titles)


14. Statistics

(Arranged by Subjects)


15. National Archives

The Public Record Office

Lists and Indexes

Records not in the P.R.O.

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

Records of Parliament


16. Obtaining H.M.S.O. Publications

Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Government Bookshops: Official Agents in the United Kingdom, Official Agents Outside the United Kingdom

Standing Orders

Selected Subscription Service

Library Discounts

Out-of-Print Publications

Periodicals

Reprints and Microtexts

Crown Copyright

H.M.S.O. as Sales Agent

H.M.S.O. Services Working Party


17. Non-H.M.S.O. Official Publications

(Arranged by Departments).

Index