[361:1] The extent to which this is done, and the amount it has increased, is shown by statistics in the chapter on "The Strength of Party Ties." The difficulty to-day comes, not from the opinions or interests of individual members, but from groups of members acting on public grounds, or at least, on grounds which affect a great part of their constituents.
[362:1] Ilbert, "Leg. Methods and Forms," Chs. iv., vii.
[362:2] Ibid., 113.
[363:1] Cf. Ilbert, "Leg. Methods and Forms," Chap. iii., and pp. 220-21, 224.
[364:1] Authority, for example, to construct a light railway, which is legally distinct, but physically indistinguishable, from a tramway, does not require confirmation by Parliament, 59-60 Vic., c. 48, §9.
[364:2] A change in the boundaries of a county or borough requires in the same way confirmation by Parliament; but an order altering an urban or rural district or parish, requires only to be laid upon the table of each House, 51-52 Vic., c. 41 (part 3).
[365:1] Drafts of orders that are not required to be laid before Parliament before they come into operation, must, by 56-57 Vic., c. 66, § 1, be open to criticism, by any public body interested, for forty days before they are finally settled and made. But this does not apply to rules made by the Local Government Board, the Board of Trade and some others (§ 1 (4)).
[365:2] Cf. Ilbert, "Leg. Methods and Forms," 41, cf. 310-14.
[365:3] Ilbert, "Manual," § 36.
[365:4] 56-57 Vic., c. 60, § 3.