
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Crown Office (Forms and Proclamations Rules) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st September 1988.
(2) References in this Order to a Schedule are references to a Schedule to this Order.
2 

(1) For any document to which this Rule applies the form of words to be used shall be that set out in Schedule 1, subject only to such variations as are specified in that Schedule.
(2) This Rule applies to the documents under the Great Seal described in the following Table.

Table
Documents Form in Schedule 1
Writs of Summons and Dissolution Forms A to C in Part I
Commissions of the Peace Forms A to D in Part II
Letters Patent Forms A to I in Part III
Royal Assents Forms A to C in Part IV
3 
It shall be sufficient for Royal Proclamations to be published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes; but if the Lord President of the Council, thinking it expedient, directs that copies of such proclamations shall in addition be sent to such High Sheriffs, Sheriffs, Lord Mayors and Mayors in England and Wales and to such Sheriffs Principal in Scotland as he thinks fit, the contents of such proclamations shall thereupon be made known in the manner accustomed.
4 
The Rules set out in the instruments specified in Schedule 2 are hereby revoked.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE 1
Rule 2

SCHEDULE 2
Rule 4

Description or Title Reference
Order in Council making Rules in pursuance of the Crown Office Act 1877, on 22nd February 1878 S.R. & O. (Rev.III) p.1009
The Crown Office Rules (No. 1) Order 1927 S.R. & O. 1927 No. 425
The Crown Office Rules (No. 2) Order 1927 S.R. & O. 1927 No. 625
The Crown Office Rules Order 1958 S.I. 1958 No. 1250
The Crown Office Rules Order 1967 S.I. 1967 No. 802
The Crown Office (Writs of Summons) Rules 1969 S.I. 1969 No. 1071
The Crown Office (Writs for Dissolving and Summoning Convocations) Rules 1970 S.I. 1970 No. 821
The Crown Office (Commissions of the Peace) Rules 1973 S.I. 1973 No. 2099
The Crown Office (Commissions of the Peace and Royal Proclamations) Rules 1975 S.I. 1975 No. 622
The Crown Office (Writs for Dissolving and Summoning Convocations) (Amendment) Rules 1975 S.I. 1975 No. 802