Letter - Asking the Privy Council Office About Shortening Gazette Notices [1980-09-09]

Letter - Asking the Privy Council Office About Shortening Gazette Notices [1980-09-09]

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Letter from Sir Wilfrid Bourne to Sir Neville Leigh asking about the possibility of shortening the Gazette notices associated with Letters Patent appointing Counsellors of State.

Sir Wilfrid Bourne (Clerk of the Crown in Chancery)

LCO 6/3764

1980-09-09

Jason Loch

From Sir Wilfrid Bourne, K. C. B.

Your ref. 911 (38)
My ref. C. O. 22/57A

 9th September 1980

Letters Patent

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In your letter of the 8th September, you mention the high cost of insertions in the Gazettes. Is there here another minor economy to be effected? I understand that the text of Letters Patent is repeated verbatim in each Gazette. Is this necessary? For example, would it be good enough, in our case, if the entry were on these lines:

“Letters Patent appointing A., B and C as Counsellors of State were issued under the Great Seal on … September 1980”?

There may be some law of the Medes and the Persians that forbids this; but it should save a little money.

 

J. W. Bourne

Sir Neville Leigh, K. C. V. O.

Sir Wilfrid Bourne (Clerk of the Crown in Chancery)

Sir Neville Leigh (Clerk of the Privy Council)

Letterhead has black and white Lesser Royal Arms with "LORD CHANCELLOR" beneath along with "From Sir Wilfrid Bourne, K. C. B." and the address.

This is an unsigned copy of the original.

Handwritten annotation reading "Extract 1" at the top.

Backwards stamp stating that the document was closed under an FOI exemption. The stamp was on an adjoining page, and it gives the exemptions as s. 37., s. 40, and s. 41 and states the record is closed until 2033.

First sentence has been redacted with marker (?).