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GREAT SEAL ACT [6 records]

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Record 1 2007-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Positions
  • Titles of Works of Art
  • The Executive (Public Administration)
OBS

Great Seal of the Realm : means the Great Seal of the Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland for which provision was made in Article XXIV of An Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, 5 Anne, 1706, chapter VIII...

OBS

The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom is a British institution by which the monarch’s official documents can be authorised without having to be signed personally. Wax is melted in a metal mould or matrix and impressed into a wax figure that is attached by cord or ribbon to documents that the monarch wishes to make official.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes gouvernementaux
  • Titres d'œuvres d'art
  • Structures du pouvoir exécutif (Admin. publ.)
DEF

Le grand sceau du Royaume-Uni de Grande -Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord prévu à l'article XXIV de la loi dite An Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, 5 Anne, 1706, chapitre VIII [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
CONT

The President and other Commissioners shall be appointed by the Governor in Council. The appointment of the President shall be made by commission under the Great Seal, after approval by resolution of the Senate and House of Commons. [Public Service Modernization Act, 2003]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
CONT

Le gouverneur en conseil nomme les commissaires; dans le cas du président, il procède à la nomination par commission sous le grand sceau, après approbation par résolution du Sénat et de la Chambre des communes. [Loi sur la modernisation de la fonction publique, 2003]

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Federal Administration
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The President and other Commissioners shall be appointed by the Governor in Council. The appointment of the President shall be made by commission under the Great Seal after approval by resolution of the Senate and House of Commons. [Public Service Modernization Act, 2003]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Administration fédérale
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Le gouverneur en conseil nomme les commissaires; dans le cas du président, il procède à la nomination par commission sous le grand sceau, après approbation par résolution du Sénat et de la Chambre des communes[Loi sur la modernisation de la fonction publique, 2003]

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Administration
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The appointment of the President shall be made by commission under the Great Seal after approval by resolution of the Senate and House of Commons. [Public Service Modernization Act, 2003]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration fédérale
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Le gouverneur en conseil nomme les commissaires; dans le cas du président, il procède à la nomination par commission sous le grand sceau, après approbation par résolution du Sénat et de la Chambre des communes. [Loi sur la modernisation de la fonction publique, 2003].

Spanish

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Record 5 1988-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Legislature (Constitutional Law)
CONT

Once the authority for an amendment has been provided by the requisite number of resolutions of assent, s. 38(1) provides that the formal act of amendment is accomplished by a "proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir législatif (Droit constitutionnel)
CONT

Le Québec et la Saskatchewan ont signé des résolutions d'agrément à l'entente Meech-Langevin (...)

Spanish

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Record 6 1985-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
OBS

The person... shall... hold office as if the Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Canada appointing that person to the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada had been issued under this Act....

OBS

Source: Bill C-60-1, 1978, s. 135.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
OBS

[La personne] occupera sa charge comme si les lettres patentes délivrées sous le grand sceau du Canada pour la nommer à la charge de gouverneur général et de Commandant en chef du Canada avaient été délivrées en vertu de la présente loi (...).

OBS

Source : Bill C-60-1, 1978, art. 135.

Spanish

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