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The Lord Chancellor, with their humble duty to Your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty's signature, if you shall so please, a Commission for giving Royal Assent to a Bill the title of which is herewith enclosed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Alex Chalk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;House of Commons, &lt;!-- Divider --&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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            <text>&lt;span&gt;This instrument using the gender-neutral pronoun "they" instead of a gendered pronoun when referring to the Lord Chancellor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;This submission refers to a "Commission" even though, strictly speaking, that term only applies when the Monarch empowers a group of Privy Counsellors to declare Royal Assent on their behalf in the House of Lords. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;At one time, these submissions included a definite article before "Royal Assent" (e.g., &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/287"&gt;this example from 1919&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;), but it must have been dropped at some point since it no longer appears in modern versions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The words "House of Commons" appear below Chalk's signature instead of the more common "Lord Chancellor."&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>Alex Chalk's formal request that King Charles III sign a Commission for giving Royal Assent to a Bill.</text>
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              <text>&lt;span&gt;Submission is undated, but this Bill received Royal Assent on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-05-11/debates/29FB92EC-933E-44BE-84DD-97F4300BA00F/RoyalAssent"&gt;May 11, 2023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/23/section/1"&gt;Royal Assent Act 1967&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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