Privy Council definition

Privy Council means the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council under section 1 of the Judicial Committees Act 1833 of Parliament;
Privy Council means the Privy Council established by section 82 of this Constitution;
Privy Council means the Privy Council established by Clause (1) of Article 5;

Examples of Privy Council in a sentence

  • Reference may also be made to the judgement of the Privy Council in Philips Hong Kong Limited v The Attorney General of Hong Kong delivered on 9 February 1993.

  • Peter, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada .

  • Members of staff are subject to the Charter and Statutes and the Ordinances and Regulations of the University, published in the Calendar, and to any amendments or additions thereto approved by the University Court and, in the case of the Charter and Statutes, the Privy Council.

  • Henceforth, the writ would truly begin to take on the appearance of a safeguard of individual liberty from the government power in its cum causa and ad subjiciendum forms.30 The first executive actions to which habeas corpus was extended were those of the monarch’s Privy Council.The Privy Council managed much of the business of governance on behalf of the crown.

  • Josée, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister for La Francophonie .


More Definitions of Privy Council

Privy Council means the Privy Council established by the Constitution;
Privy Council means the Privy Council established by subsection (1) of section 5;
Privy Council means Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a body of advisors to the British Sovereign.
Privy Council means the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;
Privy Council means the Lords and others for the time being of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council;
Privy Council means the body established under section 76 of the
Privy Council means, except when used with reference to Northern Ireland only, the Lords and others of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and when used with reference to Northern Ireland only, shall mean the Privy Council of Northern Ireland;