Submission - Royal Assent [2023-07]

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Title

Submission - Royal Assent [2023-07]

Subject

Parliament
Legislation

Description

Alex Chalk's formal request that King Charles III sign a Commission for giving Royal Assent to several Bills.

Creator

Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)

Source

FOI request

Date

Submission is undated, but these Bills received Royal Assent on June 11, 2023.

Contributor

Jason Loch

Ministerial Submission Item Type Metadata

Transcript

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(Sgd.) Appd
CR

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.

(Sgd.) Alex Chalk

Lord Chancellor,

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Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2023

National Security Act 2023

Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023



Signatures

Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)

Ornamentation

Submission is printed in Times New Roman.

Special Features

There is a pair of penciled Xs on either side of the King's approval.

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. 

This instrument using the gender-neutral pronoun "they" instead of a gendered pronoun when referring to the Lord Chancellor.

At one time, these submissions included a definite article before "Royal Assent" (e.g., this example from 1919), but it must have been dropped at some point since it no longer appears in modern versions.

Two Acts have been struck out in red pen in the list of legislation since they presumably didn't finish their parliamentary journey in time.

Files

Citation

Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice), “Submission - Royal Assent [2023-07],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/634.

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