The Crown retains vestiges of power to legislate by royal prerogative. In practice, the power is always exercised on the advice of ministers, generally sitting as a body called the Privy Council. Prerogative orders made in this way are called ‘Orders in Council’.
Such exercises of the prerogative may be embodied in Statutory Instruments (for example, the Orders in Council containing legislation for Northern Ireland). In such cases, the instruments are carried on SLD, but other instruments made in exercise of the prerogative are not carried.
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