Article 3 Privy Council procedures and legislative procedures
The power vested in the Privy Council to make an order under article 1(3) may be exercised by any two or more members of the Privy Council.
The power vested in the Privy Council to make an order under article 1(3) is exercisable by statutory instrument, and for the purposes of section 1 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946f1 (definition of “Statutory Instrument”), that power is to be taken to be conferred by an Act of Parliament.
Any act of the Privy Council under this Order is sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council.
Where an order of the Privy Council under article 1(3) is signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Privy Council, that is evidence and in Scotland sufficient evidence of—
the fact that the order was duly made; and
the order’s terms.
Annotations
Footnotes
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1946 c. 36. Section 1 was amended by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), Schedule 12, paragraph 2, and the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), Schedule 10, paragraphs 1 and 2.