Home Office (1116)

What is this notice?

  • Appointment or annulment of any special quasi-judicial position conferred by the monarch, covered by scarlet or wafer versions of the great seal
  • For companies/learned societies to petition the monarch to grant them royal chartered status

What legislation does it relate to?

  • Crown Office Act 1877 (S.3)
  • Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (Sch. II, Pt. II, S.11)

Who places this notice?

  • Privy Council
  • The parties applying (companies seeking Chartered status).

Where can I find these notices?

Notice 1116

Further information

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/40-41/41/section/3

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/50/schedule/2/paragraph/11