Editing Privy Council (United Kingdom) (section)

==Committees==

[[File:Judicial Committee of the Privy Council - Court 3.jpg|300px|thumb|Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.]]

The Privy Council have the following committees:<ref name="comm">{{cite web|url=https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/privy-council/committees/|title=Committees|publisher=Privy Council Office|access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref>

===Baronetage Committee===

The [[Standing Council of the Baronetage|Baronetage Committee]] was established by a 1910 Order in Council, during [[Edward VII]]'s reign, to scrutinise all succession claims (and thus reject doubtful ones) to be placed on the [[Official Roll of the Baronetage|Roll of Baronets]].<ref name="comm" />

===Committee for the Affairs of Jersey and Guernsey===

The [[Politics of Jersey|Committee for the Affairs of Jersey and Guernsey]] recommends approval of [[Channel Islands]] legislation.<ref name="comm" />

===Committee for the Purposes of the Crown Office Act 1877===

The Committee for the purposes of the [[Great Seal of the Realm|Crown Office Act 1877]] consists of the [[Lord Chancellor]] and [[Lord Privy Seal]] as well as a secretary of state. The Committee, which last met in 1988, is concerned with the design and usage of [[Seal (contract law)|wafer seals]].<ref name="comm" />

=== Executive Committee ===

The [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom]] is the executive committee of the Privy Council and the senior decision-making body of [[British Government]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hennessy |first=Peter |title=The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders Since 1945 |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0140283938 |pages=47 |author-link=Peter Hennessy}}</ref>

===Judicial Committee===

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The [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council|Judicial Committee]] serves as the [[final court of appeal]] for the [[Crown Dependencies]], the [[British Overseas Territories]], some [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries, military sovereign base areas and a few institutions in the [[United Kingdom]]. The Judicial Committee also hears very occasional appeals from a number of ancient and ecclesiastical courts. These include the [[Church Commissioners]], the [[Arches Court of Canterbury]], the [[Chancery Court of York]], prize courts, the [[High Court of Chivalry]], and the [[Court of Admiralty]] of the [[Cinque Ports]]. This committee usually consists of members of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] and senior judges of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] who are Privy Counsellors.

Within the United Kingdom, the Judicial Committee hears appeals from [[ecclesiastical courts]], the Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports, [[Prize Court]]s and the Disciplinary Committee of the [[Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons]], appeals against schemes of the [[Church Commissioners]] and appeals under certain Acts of Parliament (e.g., the [[House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975]]).<ref name="pco-jurisdiction2">{{cite web |title=Role of the JCPC |url=http://www.jcpc.uk/about/role-of-the-jcpc.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114165910/http://www.jcpc.uk/about/role-of-the-jcpc.html |archive-date=14 January 2014 |access-date=13 January 2012 |publisher=Judicial Committee of the Privy Council}}</ref> The Crown-in-Council was formerly the supreme appellate court for the entire [[British Empire]],<ref>Iwi, p. 128.</ref> but a number of Commonwealth countries have now abolished the right to such appeals.<ref>N.&nbsp;Cox, ''Abolition or Retention of the Privy Council'', Sect.&nbsp;11.</ref> The Judicial Committee continues to hear appeals from several Commonwealth countries, from [[British Overseas Territories]], [[Sovereign Base Area]]s and [[Crown Dependencies]].<ref name="pco-jurisdiction2" /> The Judicial Committee had direct jurisdiction in cases relating to the [[Scotland Act 1998]], the [[Government of Wales Act 1998]] and the [[Northern Ireland Act 1998]], but this was transferred to the new [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]] in 2009.<ref name="gay-p62">Gay and Rees, p. 6.</ref>

===Scottish Universities Committee===

The [[Ancient universities of Scotland|Scottish Universities Committee]] considers proposed amendments to the statutes of [[Ancient universities of Scotland|Scotland's four ancient universities]].<ref name="comm" />

===Universities Committee===

The [[Universities in the United Kingdom|Universities Committee]], which last met in 1995, considers [[petition]]s against statutes made by Oxford and Cambridge universities and their colleges.<ref name="comm" />

=== Board of Trade ===

The [[Board of Trade|Committee for Trade and Foreign Plantations]] is responsible for foreign trade and used to manage the [[Crown colonies]], but currently has only one member (the [[President of the Board of Trade]]).{{fact|date=January 2025}}

===Other committees===

In addition to the standing committees, ''ad hoc'' committees are notionally set up to consider and report on petitions for [[royal charter]]s of Incorporation and to approve changes to the [[bye-law]]s of [[corporate body|bodies]] created by royal charter.<ref name="comm" />

Committees of privy counsellors are occasionally established to examine specific issues. Such committees are independent of the Privy Council Office and therefore do not report directly to the lord president of the council.<ref name="comm" /> Examples of such committees include:<ref name="comm" />

* the [[Butler Review|Butler Committee]] – operation of the intelligence services in the runup to military intervention in Iraq
* the Chilcot Committee – for the [[Chilcot Inquiry]] on the use of intercept materials
* the [[Peter Gibson (judge)|Gibson Committee]] of enquiry set up in 2010 – to consider whether the [[UK security services]] were complicit in torture of detainees.

=== Former committees ===

Historical, but now defunct committees include:

* [[Lord President's Committee]]
* [[Court of Star Chamber]]