The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations) Order 1999

PART II Royal proclamations under section 2(5) of the 1998 Act

“BY THE QUEENA PROCLAMATION

DISSOLVING THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, SETTING THE DATE OF THE POLL AT THE SUBSEQUENT ORDINARY GENERAL ELECTION AND REQUIRING THE PARLIAMENT TO MEET WITHIN SEVEN DAYS THEREOF.

Whereas, under section 2(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, if the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament proposes to Us a day for the holding of the poll at an ordinary general election for membership of the Parliament which is not more than one month earlier, nor more than one month later, than the first Thursday in May in the fourth calendar year following that in which the previous ordinary general election was held, 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 the poll at the ordinary general election for membership of the Parliament 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:

And Whereas the said Presiding Officer has, in accordance with the said section 2(5), proposed [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer] as a day for the holding of the poll:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 2(5) and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows—

1.   The Scottish Parliament is hereby dissolved.

2.   The poll at the ordinary general election for membership of the Parliament shall be held on [insert the day proposed by the Presiding Officer].

3.   The Parliament shall meet within the period of seven days beginning immediately after that date.

4.   The Keeper of Our Scottish Seal is commanded to seal this proclamation with Our Scottish Seal.

Given at Our Court at , this day of in the year of our Lord and in the year of Our Reign.”