King-in-Parliament
King-in-Parliament (or Queen-in-Parliament with a female monarch) is a British constitutional concept that primary legislation must be passed as an Act by the House of Commons and House of Lords, and then receive the Royal Assent before becoming law. Secondary legislation must be approved in a manner set out in primary legislation. Thus laws are made by the Crown, but only through a parliamentary process.
A modern UK Act of Parliament will typically start with the words:
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
Referenced By
House of Commons of Southern Ireland | Southern Ireland
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