Order in Council - The Crown Office Rules (No. 2) Order 1927 [1927-06-27]

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Order in Council - The Crown Office Rules (No. 2) Order 1927 [1927-06-27]

Subject

Crown Office
Privy Council

Description

Order in Council of King George V altering the language of official documents following the making of a Royal Proclamation under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927.

Creator

King George V

Source

Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local, Personal, or Temporary Character Issued in 1927 (London, 1928), 138-140.

Date

1927-06-27

Contributor

Jason Loch

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THE CROWN OFFICE RULES (NO. 2) ORDER, 1927.

1927, No. 625.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of June, 1927.

PRESENT.
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by Royal Proclamation made in pursuance of section 1 of the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927, His Majesty has appointed and declared, amongst other things, that henceforth, so far as conveniently may be, on all occasions and in all instruments wherein the style and titles appertaining to the Crown are used, the following alteration shall be made in the style and titles now appointed namely, for the words "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of," there shall be substituted the words "Great Britain, Ireland and ";

And whereas it is provided by section 2 of the said Act that Parliament shall hereafter be known as and styled the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and that in every Act passed and public document issued after the passing of that Act the expression "United Kingdom" shall unless the context otherwise requires mean Great Britain and Northern Ireland:

And whereas it is provided by section 3 of the Crown Office Act, 1877, that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make and when made from time to time revoke, add to or alter Rules prescribing the form in which documents to which that Act applies, are to be worded:

And whereas the provisions of section 1 of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with:

Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1. The following Rule shall apply to any document of such a character or belonging to such a class as would, when this Order comes into operation, be required to be, or usually would be, authenticated by being passed under the Great Seal:—
RULE.

Where any of the expressions set out in the first column of the Schedule hereto occurs in the prescribed or customary form of any document to which this Rule applies, then the corresponding expression or one of the corresponding expressions set out in the second column of that Schedule may be substituted thereof, if the context so permits, for the purpose of documents issued after this Rule comes into operation.

Schedule.

First Column. Second Column.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Said United Kingdom.		 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom.
said Kingdom.
That part of the (or Our) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain (England, Scotland or Ireland). Great Britain, England, Scotland, Ireland, or Northern Ireland as the case may be.
Great Seal of the (or Our) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Great Seal of the (or Our) United Kingdom.
The (or Our) Great Seal.		 Great Seal of the (or Our) Realm.
The (or Our) Great Seal.
2. The Rules made from time to time under section 3 of the Crown Office Act, 1877, so far as they are still in force, shall have effect as amended by the Rule prescribed by the last preceding paragraph.
3. This Order may be cited as the Crown Office Rules (No. 2) Order, 1927.
M. P. A. Hankey.

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Citation

King George V, “Order in Council - The Crown Office Rules (No. 2) Order 1927 [1927-06-27],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/344.

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