royal assent
Monarch signs legislation
Royal assent is the formal approval by a monarch that transforms a bill passed by parliament into law.
In constitutional monarchies like the United Kingdom, royal assent is now ceremonial—the monarch does not refuse it.
The phrase appears in discussions of legislative process: The bill received royal assent yesterday.
- enactmentPassing into law
- Act of ParliamentFormally enacted legislative law
- constitutional monarchyRoyalty limited by charter
- billAmount owed, written
- law of the landPrevailing legal system
Letters Patent · statute · amendment · ratification · viceroy · debate · reserved powers · approval · head of state · monarch · parliament · sanction · privy council · legislation · passage · throne · decree · proclamation
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- royal ceremoniescoronation ceremony, crowning, state banquet, coronation robes, crown jewels
- British PoliticsHouse of Commons, Westminster, Whigs, Tories, Commons
- Canadian GovernmentHouse of Commons, Senate, Prime Minister, federal government, parliamentary democracy
- UK PoliticsHouse of Commons, House of Lords, MP, Tory, Downing Street
- Canadian ParliamentHouse of Commons, Senate, Parliament Hill, MP, senator