Submission - Specimen Submission from the Commissioners of the Great Seal [1971-11]

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Title

Submission - Specimen Submission from the Commissioners of the Great Seal [1971-11]

Subject

Judicial Appointments
Great Seal

Description

Specimen submission from the Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal recommending that Queen Elizabeth II approve the appointment of HH Judge David Evans as a Commissioner of Assize.

Creator

Commissioners of the Great Seal

Source

LCO 6/3932

Date

1971-11

Contributor

Jason Loch

Format

Specimen

Ministerial Submission Item Type Metadata

Transcript

Commissioners of the Great Seal

SPECIMEN

Submission

The Lords Commissioners for the custody of Your Majesty’s Great Seal of the Realm, with their humble duty to Your Majesty, submit for Your Majesty’s signature, if you shall so please, the name of His Honour Judge David Meurig Evans to be a Commissioner of Assize to go the Wales and Chester Circuit.


House of Lords,
November, 1971.



Recepi:
Received the     day of      197

[In order             x       x
of 
Seniority]            x       x
Commission

⎤

⎥

⎥

⎦

Commissioners
of the
Great Seal
CO 41/20

Ornamentation

Document is typewritten with handwritten annotations in red and green ink.

Special Features

The role of Commissioners of the Great Seal goes beyond simply sealing documents. They can also make substantive decisions in certain situations and can even tender advice to the Monarch as shown by this specimen submission.

In addition to the text of submission itself, this document also features handwritten notes on how to recepi warrants when the Great Seal is in commission.

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Citation

Commissioners of the Great Seal, “Submission - Specimen Submission from the Commissioners of the Great Seal [1971-11],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/540.

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