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Definition: ROYAL ASSENT |
ROYAL ASSENT1. In England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law. Syn: Concurrence; acquiescence; approval; accord. Usage: Assent , Consent . Assent is an act of the understanding, consent of the will or feelings. We assent to the views of others when our minds come to the same conclusion with theirs as to what is true, right, or admissible. We consent when there is such a concurrence of our will with their desires and wishes that we decide to comply with their requests. The king of England gives his assent, not his consent, to acts of Parliament, because, in theory at least, he is not governed by personal feelings or choice, but by a deliberate, judgment as to the common good. We also use assent in cases where a proposal is made which involves but little interest or feeling. A lady may assent to a gentleman's opening the window; but if he offers himself in marriage, he must wait for her consent. |
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Within countries that operate the Westminster system of parliamentary government and which continue to have the British monarch as their own sovereign, the Royal Assent in given to legislation by the Governor-General. Legislation actually given assent by the Queen herself is known as a law 'reserved for the Queen's pleasure'. Also, the sovereign herself has powers to veto legislation within one year of assent by the Governor-General.
Historically, the power of the President of the United States to veto legislation or sign bills into law was derived from the royal assent.
Three formal options exist when a Bill is presented for the Royal Assent.
The traditional method for granting the Royal Assent involved the monarch or Lords Commissioners on his or her behalf, assembling in the House of Lords, Black Rod, a formal parliamentary official, was then dispatched to the House of Commons to summon its members to the House of Lords. MPs would travel to the Lords chamber, where they would stand at the back, while the name of whatever Bills had completed parliamentary passage were read out. Where the Assent was given, the Lords Clerk, at the direction of the Commissioner, would state La Reyne le veult (the Queen approves, in old Norman French). MPs would then return back to the Commons to continue with their business. This ceremony, adapted somewhat, was copied in many commonwealth parliamentary democracies. In Canada, the Governor-General or her representative would formally attend in the Senate chamber, to which MPs would be summoned, to witness the granting of the Royal Assent.
In most states, this ceremony has been discontinued. MPs complained that it disrupted their deliberations too much. In 1967 the ceremony was abolished in the United Kingdom. Instead the granting of the Royal Assent is now confirmed in both Houses separately, by the Lords Commissioner in the House of Lords and the Speaker in the House of Commons (see External links below). Canada remained the last Commonwealth state to continue the ritual of summoning both houses to witness the granting of the Royal Assent.
The concept of reserving the Royal Assent was created to allow a monarch to avoid making an immediate decision on whether to Assent to or withhold a Bill. In Empire and Commonwealth history, it allowed the British Government in London to examine a Bill passed in a dominion to see whether it thought it worth instructing the Governor-General to veto. Today, Bills are normally only reserved on rare occasions, such as if a government wishes to have the Queen herself rather than the Governor-General sign a Bill and a royal visit is pending within a couple of weeks.
Introduction
The Three Options
While in theory, any one of the three options can be used, in practice, no British monarch since 1707 [1] has withheld the Royal Assent. Until the late 1920s, all Commonwealth governors-general were advised on the exercise of the Royal Assent by the British government. Since then, the responsibility for advising a governor-general on the Royal Assent rests with the state's own government. As they almost invariably will have introduced the Bill being considered, they are highly unlikely to advise the effective vetoing of their own Bill. Reserving the legislation for 'the Queen's pleasure' (i.e. for the sovereign to give assent to personally) is rare; some countries such as Australia have however done so if the Bill is of such signficance that the state wish to have it signed not by the Governor-General but by Queen Elizabeth II herself in person. The Queen also has can disallow legislation signed by the Governor within one year of its assent.The Use of the Powers
Granting the Royal Assent
Withholding of the Royal Assent
While withholding the Royal Assent is rare, there have been discussions on situations in which it would be proper. For example, many legal scholars believe that if the Quebec National Assembly were to unilaterally declare independence, that the Lieutenant Governor would not only have the power to withhold royal assent, but be duty bound to do so.Reserving the Royal Assent
Notes
[1] While history and legal textbooks generally refer to the last 'withholding' of the Royal Assent (ie, vetoing) as occurring in 1707, when Queen Anne vetoed a Scottish militia bill, the British parliamentary website dates the veto as occurring in 1708. This is probably due to the difference between the British "Old Style" calendar, in which a year began at the vernal equinox (March 25th, to be exact), and the "New Style" calendar, in which a year began on January 1.External links
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Crosswords: ROYAL ASSENT |
| Specialty definitions using "ROYAL ASSENT": Le Roi le Veut. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Jordan | All laws require royal assent and must be published in the national Gazette before they come into force. (references) |
Canada | Canada's financial sector reform legislation (Bill C-8) passed Parliament and received Royal Assent in June 2001. The legislation, known as the Bill to Establish the Financial Consumers Agency of Canada, will enter into force once implementing regulation is completed, expected in autumn 2001. This legislation is the culmination of six years of GOC study and industry scrutiny, and outlines plans for financial sector reform, including banking, insurance, leasing and securities components. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "ROYAL ASSENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szentesítés (consecration, sanction). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oyalray assentay kraliyet onayı. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: analysers. | |
-3 letters: aerosats, alastors, aleatory, analyser, analyses, analysts, anolytes, arsenals, assentor, asternal, ornately, salterns, sealants, seasonal, senators, starnose, treasons. | |
-4 letters: aerosat, alastor, analyse, analyst, anlases, anolyte, antlers, areolas, aroynts, arsenal, artless, assayer, astrals, astylar, atlases, atoners, elytron, estrays, etalons, lassoer, lasters, loaners, lysates, nestors, oarless, ostlers, oysters, rayless, reasons, reloans, rentals, saltern, salters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
+4 letters: agranulocytoses, electroanalyses, electroanalysis. | |
+5 letters: hypersalivations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 59 41 4C 41 53 53 45 4E 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01011001 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O Y A L   A S S E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0059 0041 004C 0041 0053 0053 0045 004E 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52495935462355353394854 |
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