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Meetings of the Privy Council are normally held once each month wherever the Sovereign may be in residence at the time. [22] The quorum, according to the Privy Council Office, is three, [62] though some statutes provide for other quorums (for example, section 35 of the Opticians Act 1989 [63] provides for a lower quorum of two).
The Privy Council Office (PCO) provides secretariat and administrative support to the Lord President of the Council in his or her capacity as president of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. The head of the office is the Clerk of the Privy Council. The PCO is an independent unit based in the Cabinet Office. [2]
The Office's present location in the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council building at 80 Wellington Street in Ottawa. The Privy Council Office (French: Bureau du Conseil privé) is the central agency of the Government of Canada which acts as the secretariat to the Cabinet of Canada – a committee of the King's Privy Council for Canada – and provides non-partisan advice and support ...
Privy Council Office may refer to: Privy Council Office (Canada) Privy Council Office (United Kingdom) This page was last edited on 16 April 2016, at 20:04 (UTC ...
A privy council is a body that advises a head of state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchical government. The term "privy" (from French privé ) signifies private or secret. Consequently, a privy council, more common in the past, existed as a group of a ruling monarch's most trusted court advisors.
This is a list of orders made by the British Privy Council. A list of all Orders in Council and Orders of Council made between July 1994 and September 2000 is held by the Privy Council Office in an Access database. [1] The ID number used in this table is the identifier in that database.
The Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council (French: Bureau du Premier ministre et du Conseil privé) building, formerly known as the Langevin Block (French: Édifice Langevin, IPA: [lɑ̃ʒvɛ̃]), is an office building facing Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Besides these, the council includes a few members of the Royal family (usually the consort and heir apparent only), more than two hundred senior UK judges (the Supreme Court justices, the senior judges of England and Wales, as well as the senators of the College of Justice of the Inner House in Scotland) and a few clergy (the three most senior ...