Question: Which entities have the capability to refer a bill to the Supreme Court?
Answer: Advocate General for Scotland, the Lord Advocate, the Attorney General or the Secretary of State

Question: For what would a bill be submitted to the Supreme Court of Scotland?
Answer: review of its legality

Question: What was the name of the method by which Wales passed legislation in the 2000's?
Answer: Measures

Question: After a four-week period, who could refer a proposed measure to the Supreme Court?
Answer: Counsel General for Wales or the Attorney General

Question: What were "measures" in Wales?
Answer: the means by which the National Assembly for Wales passed legislation between 2006 and 2011

Question: During which years were measures used in order to pass legislation in Wales?
Answer: 2006 and 2011

Question: In Wales, who had the capability of submitting a bill to the Supreme Court?
Answer: Counsel General for Wales or the Attorney General

Question: The sovereign grants assent by which order?
Answer: Order in Council

Question: Who advises the sovereign in this decision?
Answer: Lord Chancellor

Question: Which recent petition for reforms to the constitution led to assent being refused?
Answer: Chief Pleas of Sark

Question: Who advises a bill to be granted or refused?
Answer: Lord Chancellor

Question: When was an Order in Counil passed that laid out new rules for consideration of petitions against the royal assent?
Answer: 13 July 2011

Question: In what year did the Lord Chancellor refuse to present a law  concerning constituational reform for assent?
Answer: 2007

Question: What was the subject of the bill that the Lord Chancellor refused to present for royal assent in 2007?
Answer: reforms to the constitution of the Chief Pleas of Sark

Question: Under ancient custom, an Act of Tynwald didn't go into effect until decreed at which location?
Answer: Tynwald Hill at St John's

Question: Promulgation of an Act of Tynwald originally consisted of reading it in English and which other language?
Answer: Manx

Question: Nowadays, only the short title and what else are read?
Answer: summary of the long title

Question: How much of the proposed act must be currently read aloud on St John's Day?
Answer: only the short title and a summary of the long title

Question: On what day does St John's Day occur?
Answer: (24 June)

Question: Where is the open-air sitting of Tynwald usually held?
Answer: Tynwald Hill at St John's

Question: Since 1993, which body has had power to enact measures?
Answer: Sodor and Man Diocesan Synod

Question: This body makes provisions in respect to matters concerning whom?
Answer: Church of England in the Island

Question: Up until 1994, royal assent was given by whom?
Answer: Order in Council

Question: Which position now has the power to grant royal assent?
Answer: lieutenant governor

Question: Before what year was royal assent approved by Order in Council?
Answer: 1994

Question: Who currently holds the power to grant royal assent to measures?
Answer: the lieutenant governor

Question: During which years did the Synod have power to enact measures?
Answer: Between 1979 and 1993

Question: In the Canadian federal government, who is typically responsible for deciding wether to give assent?
Answer: the Governor General of Canada

Question: Which positions from the Canadian Supreme Court may also give assent if need be?
Answer: Chief Justice of Canada—or another justice

Question: Who has the capability of granting assent if the Governer General of Canada cannot?
Answer: the Deputy of the Governor General of Canada—the Chief Justice of Canada—or another justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Question: How many methods are available to grant assent in Canada?
Answer: Two

Question: If each house of parliament is notified seperately, what regulation applies?
Answer: both houses must be notified on the same day

Question: How can the House of Commons be notified of assent if it is not in session?
Answer: publishing a special issue of the Journals of the House of Commons

Question: In contrast to the House of Commons, how must the Senate be notified of assent?
Answer: governor general's letter read aloud by the speaker

Question: Which year was royal assent last withheld in the UK?
Answer: 1708

Question: The United States Declaration of Independence mentions which British monarch?
Answer: George III

Question: What did the American colonies accuse the monarch of?
Answer: refused his Assent to Laws

Question: In what year was royal assent last witheld in the UK?
Answer: 1708

Question: Who continued to advise governors-general of granting of assent, even after their colonies had responsible government?
Answer: the British government

Question: To whom did the British government occasionally still advice on the royal assent, although they had their own responsible governments?
Answer: colonies such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and Newfoundland

Question: The bill from the Australian House of Representatives was mistakenly sent and assented to by whom in 1976?
Answer: Governor-General

Question: Why did this occur?
Answer: two bills of the same title had originated from the house

Question: What did the Governor-General do with the first assent?
Answer: revoked the first assent

Question: This same procedure was more recently done to fix a similar error in which year?
Answer: 2001

Question: What was the reason a bill was accidentally assented in 1976?
Answer: two bills of the same title had originated from the house

Question: After an accidental assention of a bill with same name in 1976, when did a similar mistaken assention occur in Australia?
Answer: 2001

Question: What protocol was not followed in 1976 when a bill was mistakenly assented?
Answer: it had not been passed by each house

Question: How was the case of two bills mistakenly assented corrected both in 1796 and 2001?
Answer: The Governor-General revoked the first assent, before assenting to the bill which had actually passed

Question: What term refers to the legislature of the Isle of man?
Answer: Tynwald

Question: In what year was lordship of the Isle of Man purchased?
Answer: 1765

Question: What does the term the Revestment refer to?
Answer: lordship of the Island was purchased by the British Crown in 1765

Question: Previous to the Order in Council method, how was royal assent passed previously within the Isle of Man?
Answer: by letter from the Secretary of State to the governor

Question: How is royal assent currently granted in the Isle of Man?
Answer: Order in Council

Question: In Commonwealth realms, who is the representative of the sovereign?
Answer: the governor-general

Question: Who grants royal assent in Canada?
Answer: lieutenant governors of the provinces

Question: In Canada, who is authorized to defer assent and to whom?
Answer: A lieutenant governor may defer assent to the governor general, and the governor general may defer assent to federal bills to the sovereign.

Question: Who grants the royal assent in Commonwealth nations other than the UK?
Answer: by the realm's sovereign or, more frequently, by the representative of the sovereign

Question: What two documents declared all Commonwealth realms as sovereign kingdoms?
Answer: Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster 1931

Question: Who exercised the power to withold royal assent in Alberta in 1937?
Answer: John C. Bowen

Question: What the did Accurate News and Information Bill hope to accomplish?
Answer: force newspapers to print government rebuttals to stories to which the provincial cabinet objected

Question: Who decided the unconstitutionality of three bills brought forth by the Social Credit party?
Answer: Supreme Court of Canada and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Question: Which Houses in the UK must approve a bill before it is assented?
Answer: House of Commons and the House of Lords