The Lords Commissioners are Privy Counsellors appointed by the Monarch of the United Kingdom to exercise, on his or her behalf, certain functions relating to Parliament, including the opening and closing of Parliament, the confirmation of a newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons and the granting of Royal Assent. The Royal Commission includes at least three, but usually five, Lords Commissioners, including the Lord Chancellor.
The Lords Commissioners enter the Lords Chamber at the appointed time, and take seats on a structure temporarily placed for the duration of the ceremony. The Lord Chancellor, as the most senior Lord Commissioner, commands the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to summon the House of Commons. Representatives of the House of Commons arrive at the Bar of the House of Lords, and bow thrice, but do not actually enter the Lords Chamber. The Reading Clerk of the House of Lords then reads the Monarch's Commission, which authorises the Lords Commissioners. After the appropriate business has been transacted, the Commons again bow thrice and depart.
External link
Royal Commissions (http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldcomp/ctso54.htm)
Tudor, duke of Bedford, it is presumed for observance at the marriage of Henry VII.
The office of lord great chamberlain of England is hereditary in the coheirs of the last duke of Ancaster, who inherited it from the De Veres, earls of Oxford, in whose line it had descended from the reign of Henry I.
It ranks the lord president of the council and the lord privy seal before dukes, while it places the chancellor of the exchequer after the younger sons of earls and the eldest sons of barons, and the secretaries of state after the master of the horse and the vice-chamberlain of the household.
Lord Wilberforce did not indicate that the individual to be charged had to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom at the time of the relevant transfer: on the contrary, he confined his references to the case of individuals who avoid tax "when resident in the United Kingdom."
Commissioners of Inland Revenue 45 T.C. One of the issues raised in Herdman was precisely that now raised before your Lordships, and it was resolved by the Court of Appeal in favour of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.
In Congreve the Commissioners of Inland Revenue had successfully contended that for the purposes of liability under section 18 of the Finance Act 1936 the identity of the transferor of the assets in question was immaterial.
Feeds |
Contact