Act
United Hampshire Realm (Transitional Establishment and Continuity) Act 2026
2026 c. 1
Table of Contents
- PART 1 — Preliminary
- 1. Citation and commencement
- 2. Status of this Act
- 3. Internal effect
- 4. Interpretation
- 5. Chief Minister capacity
- 6. No implied permanence
- PART 2 — Establishment of the United Hampshire Realm
- 7. Establishment of the Realm
- 8. Purpose of the Realm
- 9. State Structure and United Hampshire Realm Structure
- 10. Uncodified constitutional order
- PART 3 — Supersession of the Former HRC Model
- 11. Supersession
- 12. Continuation of predecessor arrangements
- 13. Predecessor arrangements register
- PART 4 — Continuity Authority
- 14. Lord Lieutenant’s continuity authority
- 15. Limits on continuity authority
- 16. Vice Lord Lieutenant safeguard
- 17. Emergency preservation
- PART 5 — Primary Authority for Regulations and Transitional Instruments
- 18. Power to make Regulations
- 19. Power to make other transitional instruments
- 20. Required contents of Regulations and transitional instruments
- PART 6 — Temporary Exercise of Chief Minister Functions
- 21. Chief Minister functions during transition
- 22. Temporary assumption by the Lord Lieutenant
- 23. Ministerial statements
- PART 7 — Recognition of Constitutional Machinery
- 24. Government
- 25. Parliament
- 26. Judiciary, appeals and review
- 27. Civil Service
- PART 8
- 28. Records
- 29. Preservation of assets and access
- 30. . . .
- PART 9 — Review, Replacement and Democratic Handover
- 31. Review of this Act
- 32. Submission to ordinary authority
- 33. Democratic handover
- 34. Matters reserved for separate provision
- 35. Final provision