Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-term Parliament [2019-11-06]

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Title

Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-term Parliament [2019-11-06]

Subject

Parliament
General Elections
Privy Council

Description

Royal Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II calling a new Parliament to meet on December 17, 2019.

Creator

Queen Elizabeth II

Source

Recorded in The Gazette (London Gazette), issue 62821, November 8, 2019, 20264.

Date

2019-11-06

Contributor

Jason Loch

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Transcript

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 Tuesday the seventeenth day of December 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 Lord High Chancellor 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 sixth day of November in the Year of our Lord two thousand and nineteen and in the sixty-eighth 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

The wording of this Royal Proclamation is anomalous in that the Lord Chancellor is referred to as "Our Lord High Chancellor" rather than "Our Chancellor of Great Britain" (cf. the Proclamation from 2015).

Citation

Queen Elizabeth II, “Royal Proclamation - Calling a Fixed-term Parliament [2019-11-06],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/198.

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