Royal Proclamation - Dissolution of Parliament [2024-05-30]

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Title

Royal Proclamation - Dissolution of Parliament [2024-05-30]

Subject

Parliament
General Elections
Privy Council

Description

Royal Proclamation of King Charles III dissolving the current Parliament and calling a new one to meet on July 9, 2024.

Creator

King Charles III

Source

Privy Council Office

Date

2024-05-30

Contributor

Jason Loch

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Transcript

Page 1

BY THE KING

A PROCLAMATION

FOR DISSOLVING THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT AND DECLARING THE CALLING OF ANOTHER


Charles R

Whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to Friday, the thirty-first day of May: We do, for that End, publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly: And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Members of the House of Commons, are discharged from further Attendance thereat: And We being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our People, and to have their Advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our loving Subjects Our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a new Parliament: and do hereby further declare, that, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, We have given Order that Our Chancellor of Great Britain and Our Secretary of State for Northern Ireland do respectively, upon Notice thereof, forthwith, issue out Writs, in due Form and according to Law, for calling a new Parliament: And We do hereby also, by this Our Royal Proclamation under Our Great Seal of Our Realm, require Writs forthwith to be issued accordingly by Our said Chancellor and Secretary of State respectively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons who are to serve in the said Parliament to be duly returned to, and give their Attendance in, Our said Parliament on Tuesday, the ninth day of July next, which Writs are to be returnable in due course of Law.

Page 2

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this thirtieth day of May in the Year of our Lord two thousand and twenty four and in the second year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING






L. S.

Ornamentation

Printed in Times New Roman.

Motif of St. Edward's Crown and heraldic plants at the top of the page.

Printed on blue paper.

Embossed Wafer Great Seal at the bottom of pg. 2.

Special Features

This was the first Dissolution Proclamation following the passage of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 which repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 and purported to revive the power to dissolve Parliament under the royal prerogative. The question of whether a prerogative power can be revived by statute is contested. 

This instrument follows the wording of pre-2011 Dissolution Proclamations. It was also accompanied by an Order in Council directing the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to issue writs for calling the new Parliament.

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Citation

King Charles III, “Royal Proclamation - Dissolution of Parliament [2024-05-30],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/195.

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