Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-Term Parliament [2015-03-30]

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Title

Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-Term Parliament [2015-03-30]

Subject

Parliament
General Elections
Privy Council

Description

Royal Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II calling a new Parliament to meet on May 18, 2015.

Creator

Queen Elizabeth II

Source

Recorded in The Gazette (London Gazette), issue 61188, March 31, 2015, 6014.

Date

2015-03-30

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BY THE QUEEN A PROCLAMATION FOR DECLARING THE CALLING OF A NEW PARLIAMENT ELIZABETH R.

Whereas We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our People, and to have their Advice in Parliament, do publish this, Our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby make known to all Our loving Subjects Our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a new Parliament to be holden at Westminster on Monday the eighteenth day of May next: And We do hereby also, by this Our Royal Proclamation under Our Great Seal of Our Realm, require Writs to be issued by Our Chancellor of Great Britain for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who are to serve in the said Parliament to give their Attendance in Our said Parliament on the said date.

Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this thirtieth day of March in the Year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen and in the sixty-fourth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

Ornamentation

This is the form in which the instrument was gazetted and does not reflect the formatting of the original.

Special Features

This was the first time a new Parliament was summoned under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. This Royal Proclamation is modeled on the traditional Dissolution Proclamation, though of course it doesn't include any language about dissolving the present Parliament. It also omits any reference to the Commons.

This Proclamation was not accompanied by the customary Order in Council directing the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to issue writs for calling a new Parliament.

Citation

Queen Elizabeth II, “Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-Term Parliament [2015-03-30],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/197.

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