royal assent

noun

(in Britain) the formal signing of an act of Parliament by the sovereign, by which it becomes law

Following royal assent, and a one-year phase-in period, Section 13 will be history.

It was, however, allowed to stand, and by the first week of August all the three bills had received the royal assent.

Eventually the amendment was accepted, and the Bill, as amended, received the royal assent on July 3.

The queen then gave the royal assent to a series of bills, after which she proceeded to read the speech.

Pitt proposed to provide for the royal assent by placing the great seal in a commission with authority to affix it to the bill.

My decided opinion is, that the royal assent should no longer be withheld from the act of the colonial legislature.

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