Editing Storting (section)

===Royal assent===
Once the bill has reached the King in Council, the bill must be signed by the [[Monarch of Norway|monarch]] and countersigned by the [[Prime Minister of Norway|prime minister]]. It then becomes [[Law of Norway|Norwegian law]] from the date stated in the Act or decided by the government.

Articles 77–79 of the Norwegian constitution specifically grant the King of Norway the right to withhold Royal Assent from any bill passed by the Storting.<ref name="NW">"[http://www.stortinget.no/english/constitution.html The Norwegian Constitution]". The Storting information office. Retrieved on 12 April 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503102011/http://www.stortinget.no/english/constitution.html |date=3 May 2007 }}</ref> This right has never been exercised by any Norwegian monarch since the [[dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905]] (though it was exercised by [[King of Sweden|Swedish monarchs]] before then when they ruled Norway). Should the king ever choose to exercise this privilege, Article 79 provides a means by which his veto may be overridden if the Storting passes the same bill after a general election:

"If a Bill has been passed unaltered by two sessions of the Storting, constituted after two separate successive elections and separated from each other by at least two intervening sessions of the Storting, without a divergent Bill having been passed by any Storting in the period between the first and last adoption, and it is then submitted to the King with a petition that His Majesty shall not refuse his assent to a Bill which, after the most mature deliberation, the Storting considers to be beneficial, it shall become law even if the Royal Assent is not accorded before the Storting goes into recess."<ref name="NW" />