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    The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 4) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that authorised the alteration of...
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  • the Royal Titles Act. By that law, and the subsequent Royal Titles Act 1901 and Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch held one title throughout...
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    of 1926, the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, and the Statute of Westminster 1931. The Windsors became recognised as the royal family of multiple...
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    Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the...
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    Act 2011 (Repeal) Bill. Announced formally in the 2021 State Opening of Parliament, it received its first reading on 12 May 2021 and received Royal Assent...
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    Ireland" by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 (although, strictly speaking, the Act only referred to the King's title and the name of Parliament)...
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    Britain and Ireland in 1801. Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922 as the Irish Free State, and the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 created...
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  • Royal Style and Titles Act, providing for the Parliament's consent to the issuance of a royal proclamation changing the monarch's style and title in relation...
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    Short Titles Act 1896. The short title of the act of the Irish Parliament is Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (40 Geo. 3. c. 38 (I)), assigned by a 1951 act of...
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    Ireland Act 1949, granting autonomy to Ireland and subsequently recognising its independence and republicanism Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, changing...
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    Conference and effected by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, after which a new Great Seal was struck with the new style. The 1927 act referred...
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  • style of the British sovereign is chosen and proclaimed by the sovereign, in accordance with the Royal Titles Act 1953. The current sovereign, King Charles...
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    though united by a common allegiance to the Crown". The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, an Act of the Westminster Parliament, was the first indication...
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    had not been prosecuted. The Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (c. 35) received royal assent on 28 July 1998. 167 prisoners were released by October...
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    Elizabeth II". "Royal And Parliamentary Titles Act 1927". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2016. Skene, Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, p. 131...
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    independence The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of...
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    the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. "Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1927 c. 4 Sandys...
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    changed to "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" until the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927). On 27 March 1923 an Order in Council...
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    internal waters and territorial sea of the United Kingdom as are adjacent to Scotland". The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 refers...
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    Balfour, who was Lord President of the Council. It declared the United Kingdom and the Dominions to be: ... autonomous Communities within the British Empire...
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    Britain and Ireland. The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 formally amended the name to the "Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern...
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    34 of the Act; the modern convention for the citation of short titles omits the comma after the word "Act". Randall Hansen, Citizenship and Immigration...
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    Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act was granted royal assent on 24 March 2022, repealing the Fixed Term Parliaments Act and the Early Parliamentary General...
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    Ireland Act 1542. Since the 12th century, the King of England had acted as Lord of Ireland, under papal overlordship. The act of 1542 created the title of...
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    "Royal Arms, Styles and Titles of Great Britain". Heraldica.org. Retrieved 25 October 2013. "Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and of...
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    (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to repeal the European Communities Act 1972, and for parliamentary approval...
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    London Declaration (category India and the Commonwealth of Nations)
    Declaration; and the words of 1926 and 1931, reciting their " common allegiance to the Crown," were reaffirmed. S. A. de Smith, The Royal Styles and Titles, The...
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    Scotland; thereby upholding the concept of Westminster's absolute parliamentary sovereignty. The Act also provides for the creation of a 'Scottish Executive' though...
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    Kerr dismissed the government and forced an election.) With the passage of the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 the British Government lost the...
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    the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 12 April 1927 with the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act. The modern-day United Kingdom is...
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