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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counsellors-of-state-act-2022/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counsellors-of-state-act-2022/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/47",
  "legislation_title": "Counsellors of State Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/counsellors-of-state-act-2022",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to add His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex and Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to the persons to whom royal functions may be delegated as Counsellors of State.\n[6th December 2022]\nWhereas Your Majesty, by Your Majesty’s Royal Message to both Houses of Parliament, has confirmed that Your Majesty would be most content, should Parliament see fit, for the number of people who may be called upon to act as Counsellors of State under the terms of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953 to be increased to include Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex and Forfar, both of whom have previously undertaken this role;\nNow, therefore, we, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it be enacted, and\nBe it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/47/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:53:52.824632+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}