British Official Publications
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- 2nd Edition - May 17, 2014
- Author: John E. Pemberton
- Editor: G. Chandler
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 1 3 3 2 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 4 5 7 4 - 7
British Official Publications, Second Revised Edition is a 17-chapter book that first describes the British parliamentary government. Subsequent chapters talk about the official… Read more

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Request a sales quoteBritish Official Publications, Second Revised Edition is a 17-chapter book that first describes the British parliamentary government. Subsequent chapters talk about the official publications and parliamentary proceedings. Other chapters present the commons and lords papers; command papers; royal commissions; bills; parliamentary debates; acts and measures; delegated legislation and administrative tribunals; committees and tribunals of inquiry; non-parliamentary publications; reference books; statistics; and national archives. Obtaining H.M.S.O. publications and non-H.M.S.O. official publications are also shown.
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
- No. of pages: 342
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: May 17, 2014
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483113326
- eBook ISBN: 9781483145747
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