{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-1999/schedule/part-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-1999/schedule/part-III.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/part/III",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Royal proclamations under section 3(2) of the 1998 Act",
  "text": "“BY THE QUEENA PROCLAMATION\nDISSOLVING THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, REQUIRING AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD, SETTING THE DATE OF THE POLL AT THAT ELECTION AND REQUIRING THE PARLIAMENT TO MEET WITHIN SEVEN DAYS THEREAFTER.\nWhereas, under section 3(2) of the Scotland Act 1998, if the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament proposes to Us a day for the holding of a poll in the circumstances set out in section 3(1) of that Act, We have power by proclamation under Our Scottish Seal (that is Our Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal of Scotland) to dissolve the Scottish Parliament, to require an extraordinary general election for membership of the Parliament to be held, to require the poll at the election to be held on the day proposed, and to require the Parliament to meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after the day of the poll:\nAnd Whereas the said Presiding Officer has, in accordance with the said section 3(1), proposed [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer] as a day for the holding of the poll:\nWe, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(2) and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows—\n1 The Scottish Parliament is hereby dissolved.\n2 An extraordinary general election for membership of the Parliament shall be held.\n3 The poll at that election shall be held on [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer].\n4 The Parliament shall meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after that date.\n5 The Keeper of Our Scottish Seal is commanded to seal this proclamation with Our Scottish Seal.\nGiven at Our Court at , this day of in the year of our Lord and in the year of Our Reign.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/737/schedule/part/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:02.052181+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."
}