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| - All acts of the Sivadian Parliament (The Councils of Equals and Peers, collectively with the Monarch) must be given the Royal Assent in order to become law. In this case, the King acts on the advice of his ministers, and the Royal Assent has rarely in practice been withheld, though it is possible under the laws of Sivad that the King could withhold his assent from all but monetary appropriations, which are exclusively within the purview of the Council of Equals. The King also has a right to be consulted, to encourage, and to warn, and meets at least weekly with the First Councillor to discuss important matters of state.
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| - All acts of the Sivadian Parliament (The Councils of Equals and Peers, collectively with the Monarch) must be given the Royal Assent in order to become law. In this case, the King acts on the advice of his ministers, and the Royal Assent has rarely in practice been withheld, though it is possible under the laws of Sivad that the King could withhold his assent from all but monetary appropriations, which are exclusively within the purview of the Council of Equals. The King also has a right to be consulted, to encourage, and to warn, and meets at least weekly with the First Councillor to discuss important matters of state. The King also performs the very important functions of summoning Parliament for the beginning of each session, ending the session by prorogation, and dissolving Parliament at the end of each term. The Goverment is within the gift of the King, and he officially appoints the First Councillor and the Ministers of State. The First Councillor is always the leader of the majority party in the Council of Equals, who is then invited to form a government and submits to the Crown a list of appointees for the government offices. The King also officially appoints many other office holders, such as judges, diplomats, officers of the armed services, and senior officials of the Church of Sivad. As there is no privy council on Sivad, the duties that were performed by them were absorbed by the Monarch under Franklin I, and during the "Isherwood Restoration" of Richard I, are shared between the King and Peers, including Orders in Council (which, by Acts of Parliament, enact subordinate legislation ranging from constitutions of dependent territories to interstellar agreements). The King also approves Proclamations (formal notices which cover areas such as the dissolution of Parliament, coinage and dates of certain Bank Holidays). All laws are passed, "[B]y the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and his Councillors, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same..."
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