{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-48",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2401",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Assent to Bills.",
  "text": "(1) A Bill shall not become a law until either—\n(a) the Governor has assented thereto in Her Majesty’s name and on Her Majesty’s behalf and has signed the same in token of such assent; or\n(b) Her Majesty has given Her assent thereto through a Secretary of State and the Governor has signified such assent by proclamation published in the Gazette.\n(2) When a Bill is presented to the Governor for assent he shall declare that he assents or refuses to assent thereto or that he reserves the Bill for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure:\nProvided that, unless he has been authorised by a Secretary of State to assent thereto, the Governor shall reserve for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure any Bill—\n(a) which appears to him, acting in his discretion—\n(i) to be inconsistent with any obligation of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom towards any other state or power or any international organisation;\n(ii) to be likely to prejudice the Royal prerogative, or the efficiency of the judiciary, or to affect any of the matters mentioned in section 16 of this Constitution; or\n(b) which is in any way repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution.\n(3) A law assented to by the Governor shall come into operation on the date on which such assent shall be given, unless it shall be enacted either in such law or in some other enactment that it shall come into operation on some other date, in which case it shall come into operation on that date.\n(4) A Bill reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure shall become a law so soon as Her Majesty has given her assent thereto, through a Secretary of State, and such assent has been signified by proclamation published in the Gazette. Every such law shall come into operation on the date of such proclamation, unless it shall be enacted either in such law or in some other enactment that it shall come into operation on some other date, in which case it shall come into operation on that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended (Montserrat constitution)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1339",
      "affecting_title": "The Montserrat Constitution (Amendment) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2401/schedule/2/paragraph/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:48.620255+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."
}