The Crown Office (Preparation and Authentication of Documents Rules) Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1162
• Sections: 26

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Crown Office (Preparation and Authentication of Documents Rules) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st September 1988.

(2) References in this Order to documents are to documents to which the Crown Office Act 1877 applies and references to a Schedule are references to a Schedule to this Order.

Section 2 Authentication by means of the Wafer Great Seal

Except where the Lord Chancellor, thinking it more convenient that a particular document should be passed under the Great Seal, has so directed, all the documents specified in Schedule 1 shall be authenticated by the impression of the Wafer Great Seal.

Section 3 Printing or writing

The documents specified in Schedule 1 may be printed or written or partly printed and partly written.

Section 4 Paper or parchment

Except where the Lord Chancellor, thinking it more convenient that a particular document should be prepared on the material employed for such documents at any earlier time, has so directed, all the documents specified in Part I of Schedule 1 shall be prepared on parchment, those specified in Part II may be prepared on paper or parchment, and those specified in Part III shall be prepared on paper.

Section 5 Authentication

The name of the Clerk of the Crown shall be subscribed or printed at the end of all documents, by way of authentication of their having passed through the Crown Office.

Section 6 Marginal decoration and illumination

Any document may, with the leave of the Lord Chancellor, be illuminated with the Royal Arms and any other decoration in one or more colours by hand, in such manner as the Lord Chancellor may approve.

Section 7 Revocations

The Rules set out in the instruments specified in Schedule 2 are hereby revoked.

Section 1

Commissions of the Peace

Section 2

Ratification of Treaties

Section 3

Royal Proclamations

Section 4

Royal Assent Commissions

Section 5

Confirmation of Lambeth Degrees

Section 6

Parliamentary Writs, of Summons or Attendance

Section 7

Writs for Parliamentary Elections

Section 8

Writs of Convocation

Section 9

Commissions other than the Defence Council Commission, the Commission for Custody of the Great Seal and the Commissions specified above

Section 10

Letters Patent for the conferment of Knighthood

Section 11

Letters Patent for

(a) Cong d'lire

(b) Restitution of Temporalities (including Writs to escheators)

Section 12

Letters Patent for the appointment of

(a) Suffragan Bishops

(b) High Almoner

(c) Master of the Temple

Section 13

Letters Patent for the appointment of

(a) Queen’s Counsel

(b) Heralds

Section 14

Letters Patent for appointments to Office other than Judicial Office

Section 15

Presentations to Crown Livings

Section 16

Pensions and Annuities

Section 17

Instruments of Accession by Her Majesty to International Treaties

Section 18

Instruments or Notifications of Acceptance or Approval by Her Majesty of International Treaties

Section 19

All Full Powers granted by Her Majesty