How the King “Discharges” Paliamentr

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 10, 13 January 1936, Page 10

How the King “Discharges” Paliamentr

In the “London Gazette,” in quaint traditional language, is set fortli the constitutional procedure for “Dissolving the Present Parliament and Declaring the Calling of Another,” says the “Daily Telegraph.” The Proclamation by the King is in the following terms: — ‘ ‘ GEORGE R.I.

“Whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament which stands prorogued to Tuesday, tho Nineteenth day of November next; We do, for that End, publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do' hereby dissolve tho said Parliament accordingly; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs, f of the House of Commons are discharged from their Meeting and Attendance on the said Tuesday, the Nineteenth day of November next; And We being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our People, and to have their Advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our Loving Subjects Our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a now Parliament. ...” “GOD SAVE THE KING.”

There follows another Proclamation by the King “in Order to tho Electing and Summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland.” “GEORGE R.I. “Whereas We have in our Council thought fit to declare Our pleasure foi summoning and holding a Parliament of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Tuesday, the Twenty-sixth day of November next ensuing the date hereof: In order therefore, to the electing and summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland who are to sit in tho House of Peers in tho said Parliament, We do, by -nd with the advice of Our Privy Council, issue forth this Our Royal Proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at tho Palace of Holyrood House, in Edinburgh, on Friday the Fifteenth day of November next at Twelve o’clock noon, to nominate and choose the Sixteen Peers to sit and voto in the House of Peers in the said ensuing Parliament. ...” Both these Proclamations are “Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace this Twenty-fifth day of October, in tho year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and in the Twenty-sixth year of Our Reign.” Then comes a short notice signed by Sir Maurice P. A. Hankey, Clerk to tho Privy C uncil, declaring that the King, having dissolved tho present Parliament and declared the calling of another, is pleased to order the .Lord High Chancellor and the Governor of Northern Ireland forthwith to “cause writs to be issued in due form and according to law for the calling of a new Parliament, to meet at tho City of Westminster on Tuesday, the twenty-sixth day of November next; which writs are to be returnable in due course of law.”

There are two more Notices, signed by Sir Maurice Hankey. The first announces that the King, by and with tho advice of his Privy Council, orders that the Convocations of Canterbury and York be forthwith dissolved and calls upon the Lord High Chancellor to issue the usual Writs for that purpose. The second announces that the King, in the same manner, orders the Writs to be,issued “in due form of Law,” for electing new Members of the Convocations of the Clergy, the Writs to be returnable on Wednesday, January 22nd, 1936.