Royal Warrant - For Affixing the Great Seal to a Full Powers [1999-12-16]
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L. S.
(Sgd.) Elizabeth R
Our Will and Pleasure is, that you forthwith cause Our Great Seal to be affixed to an Instrument bearing date with these Presents (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) containing a Full Power to Our Trusty and Well-beloved, Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, Esquire, a Member of Parliament, one of Our Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, authorising and empowering him, in respect of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to negotiate and conclude with the Minister or Ministers, Plenipotentiary or Plenipotentiaries vested with similar Power and Authority on the part of any other Powers or States any Treaty, Convention, Agreement, Protocol or other Instrument for the arrangement of matters in discussion between Us and such other Powers or States.
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And for so doing this shall be your Warrant.
Given at Our Court of Saint James’s, the Sixteenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-nine and in the Forty-eighth Year of Our Reign.
BY HER MAJESTY’S COMMAND,
(Sgd.) Robin Cook
To
Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor Alexander Andrew Mackay, Lord Irvine of Lairg, QC, Our Chancellor of Great Britain.
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Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c., &c., To all and singular to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
Whereas for the better treating of and arranging any matters which are now in discussion, or which may come into discussion, between Us, in respect of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and any other Powers or States, We have judged it expedient to invest a fit person with Full Power to conduct negotiations on Our part, in respect of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Know ye, therefore,
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that We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in the Wisdom, Loyalty, Diligence and Circumspection of Our Trusty and Well-beloved Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, Esquire, a Member of Parliament, one of Our Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, have named, made, constituted and appointed, as We do by these Presents name, make, constitute and appoint him Our undoubted Commissioner, Procurator and Plenipotentiary in respect of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Giving to him all manner of Power and Authority to treat, adjust and conclude with such Minister or Ministers, Plenipotentiary or Plenipotentiaries as may be vested with similar Power and Authority on the part of any other Powers or States any Treaty, Convention, Agreement, Protocol or other Instrument between Us and such Powers or States, and to sign for Us, and in Our name, in respect of Our United Kingdom of
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Great Britain and Northern Ireland, everything so agreed upon and concluded, and to do and transact all such other matters as may appertain thereto, in as ample manner and form, and with equal force and efficacy, as We Ourselves could do, if personally present; Engaging and Promising, upon Our Royal Word, that whatever things shall be so transacted and concluded by Our said Commissioner, Procurator and Plenipotentiary, in respect of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, shall, subject if necessary to Our Ratification, be agreed to, acknowledged and accepted by Us in the fullest manner, and that We will never suffer, either in the whole or in part, any person whatsoever to infringe the same, or act contrary thereto, as far as it lies in Our power.
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In Witness whereof We have caused Our Great Seal to be affixed to these Presents, which We have signed with Our Royal Hand.
Given at Our Court of Saint James’s, the ____ day of ______ in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-nine and in the Forty-eighth Year of Our Reign.
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Full Powers are printed in a mix of a Gothic font and Times New Roman.
The eschatocol is unusual of the Full Powers is unusual. Instead of the usual teste clause ("In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent") it reads "In Witness whereof We have caused Our Great Seal to be affixed to these Presents which We have signed with Our Royal Hand". It then proceeds to a dating clause like those used in Royal Warrants.
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