The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations) Order 1999

Article 3

SCHEDULE FORM OF DOCUMENTS

PART I Letters Patent

“ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To Our trusty and well beloved the members of the Scottish Parliament GREETING:

FORASMUCH as various Bills have been passed by the Scottish Parliament and have been submitted to Us for Our Royal Assent by the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament in accordance with the Scotland Act 1998 the short Titles of which Bills are set forth in the Schedule hereto but those Bills by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 do not become Acts of the Scottish Parliament nor have effect in the Law without Our Royal Assent signified by Letters Patent under Our Scottish Seal (that is Our Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal of Scotland) signed with Our own hand and recorded in the Register of the Great Seal We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent to be made and have signed them and by them do give Our Royal Assent to those Bills COMMANDING ALSO the Keeper of Our Scottish Seal to seal these Our Letters with that Seal.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.

WITNESS Ourself at the day of in the year of OurReign .

By The Queen Herself Signed with Her Own Hand.”

PART II Royal proclamations under section 2(5) of the 1998 Act

“BY THE QUEENA PROCLAMATION

DISSOLVING THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, SETTING THE DATE OF THE POLL AT THE SUBSEQUENT ORDINARY GENERAL ELECTION AND REQUIRING THE PARLIAMENT TO MEET WITHIN SEVEN DAYS THEREOF.

Whereas, under section 2(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, if the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament proposes to Us a day for the holding of the poll at an ordinary general election for membership of the Parliament which is not more than one month earlier, nor more than one month later, than the first Thursday in May in the fourth calendar year following that in which the previous ordinary general election was held, We have power by proclamation under Our Scottish Seal (that is Our Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal of Scotland) to dissolve the Scottish Parliament, to require the poll at the ordinary general election for membership of the Parliament to be held on the day proposed, and to require the Parliament to meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after the day of the poll:

And Whereas the said Presiding Officer has, in accordance with the said section 2(5), proposed [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer] as a day for the holding of the poll:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 2(5) and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows—

1.   The Scottish Parliament is hereby dissolved.

2.   The poll at the ordinary general election for membership of the Parliament shall be held on [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer].

3.   The Parliament shall meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after that date.

4.   The Keeper of Our Scottish Seal is commanded to seal this proclamation with Our Scottish Seal.

Given at Our Court at , this day of in the year of our Lord and in the year of Our Reign.”

PART III Royal proclamations under section 3(2) of the 1998 Act

“BY THE QUEENA PROCLAMATION

DISSOLVING THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, REQUIRING AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD, SETTING THE DATE OF THE POLL AT THAT ELECTION AND REQUIRING THE PARLIAMENT TO MEET WITHIN SEVEN DAYS THEREAFTER.

Whereas, under section 3(2) of the Scotland Act 1998, if the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament proposes to Us a day for the holding of a poll in the circumstances set out in section 3(1) of that Act, We have power by proclamation under Our Scottish Seal (that is Our Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal of Scotland) to dissolve the Scottish Parliament, to require an extraordinary general election for membership of the Parliament to be held, to require the poll at the election to be held on the day proposed, and to require the Parliament to meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after the day of the poll:

And Whereas the said Presiding Officer has, in accordance with the said section 3(1), proposed [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer] as a day for the holding of the poll:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(2) and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows—

1.   The Scottish Parliament is hereby dissolved.

2.   An extraordinary general election for membership of the Parliament shall be held.

3.   The poll at that election shall be held on [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer].

4.   The Parliament shall meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after that date.

5.   The Keeper of Our Scottish Seal is commanded to seal this proclamation with Our Scottish Seal.

Given at Our Court at , this day of in the year of our Lord and in the year of Our Reign.”