Publication Date: Monday, 10 December 2012
Notice Code: 1208
Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament
THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT (LETTERS PATENT AND PROCLAMATIONS) ORDER 1999
The following Letters Patent were signed by Her Majesty The Queen on the fourth of August 2012 in respect of the Local Government
Finance (Unoccupied Properties etc.) (Scotland) Bill ASP 11.
ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms
and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To Our trusty and well beloved the members of the Scottish
Parliament
GREETING:
FORASMUCH as a Bill has been passed by the Scottish Parliament and has been submitted to Us for Our Royal Assent by the Presiding
Officer of the Scottish Parliament in accordance with the Scotland Act 1998 the short Title of which Bill is set forth in
the Schedule hereto but that Bill by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 does not become an Act of the Scottish Parliament nor
have effect in the Law without Our Royal Assent signified by Letters Patent 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) signed with Our own hand and
recorded in the Register of the Great Seal We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent to be made and have signed them
and by them do give Our Royal Assent to that Bill COMMANDING ALSO the Keeper of Our Scottish Seal to seal these Our Letters
with that Seal.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.
WITNESS Ourself at Buckingham Palace the third day of December in the sixty-first year of Our Reign.
By The Queen Herself Signed with Her Own Hand.
SCHEDULE
Local Government Finance (Unoccupied Properties etc.) (Scotland) Bill ASP 11
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