§ MR. E. STANHOPEasked Mr. Attorney General, Whether he will consider the possibility of preparing a Registration Bill consolidating existing legislation on the subject, into which the provisions of the new Registration (Occupation Voters) Bill could be incorporated immediately after it has passed through Parliament, in order that, at the approaching registration, the very numerous officials who will, for the first time, have to put in force provisions of a complicated character, may have the law upon the subject before them in a compact and intelligible form?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES)said, that the Government had already considered the best means, with respect to this very difficult question, of dealing with registration, and they had come to the conclusion that it would be scarcely worth while or practically expedient to consolidate all the Acts under the circumstances mentioned in the Question.
§ SIR R. ASSHETON CROSSasked whether the hon. and learned Gentleman would see that some abstracts of the Acts were made, such as had been done in a somewhat similar case by the President of the Local Government Board?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES)said, that the precepts they were bound to issue would very much assist the action of the overseers.
§ SIR R. ASSHETON CROSSobserved, that if the hon. and learned Gentleman would take counsel with the President of the Local Government Board, he would find what very useful directions might be issued.