In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

The Shetland Amenity Trust lists about 120 sites in Shetland as candidate brochs, while The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland identifies a total of 571 candidate broch sites throughout the country.

Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

In 1927 he was appointed a member of the multi-party Simon Commission, a Royal Commission set up to examine the possibility of granting self-rule to India.

In 1946 the government set up a Royal Commission on the press which eventually led to the Press Council in 1953.

* Canmore, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland's Canmore database, a searchable database of archaeological and architectural sites in Scotland, including crannogs.

A Royal Commission was set up to enquire into the causes of the Rising.

The Commission heard evidence from Sir Matthew Nathan, Augustine Birrell, Lord Wimborne, Sir Neville Chamberlain ( Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary ), General Lovick Friend, Major Ivor Price of Military Intelligence and others.

A Royal Commission on London Government was set up to consider the issue.

Reform of the local government arrangements in the County of London and its environs was again considered by the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London.

A Local Government Commission was wound up in 1966, and replaced with a Royal Commission ( known as the Redcliffe-Maud commission ).

A few days later, Holt announced a new Royal Commission into the disaster.

* Royal Commission on the Constitution ( United Kingdom )

A Royal Commission on London Government in the 1920s did not permit the London County Council to extend its area of responsibility and an ad-hoc London Traffic Area was created to regulate motor traffic in the wider London region.

* 1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.

: The legal definition of insanity has not advanced significantly since 1843 ; in 1953 evidence was given to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment that doctors even then regarded the legal definition to be obsolete and misleading.

On the 14th of July 1835 a Royal Commission was appointed.

In a process overseen by a Royal Fine Art Commission under the presidency of Prince Albert, a Select Committee which included Sir Robert Peel started to take witness accounts from experts in 1841.

Leading after his endorsement of Lester Pearson's Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Official Languages Act was passed by parliament in 1969.

This reflected what the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism found in their hearings across Canada, as described in Book IV of the Commission's report.

He took note of and encouraged the young Lester Pearson in the early 1930s, and appointed Pearson to significant roles on two major government inquiries: the 1931 Royal Commission on Grain Futures, and the 1934 Royal Commission on Price Spreads.

In 1919 The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Epidemic concluded that there had been no epidemic of pneumonic influenza in Western Samoa before the arrival of the ' SS Talune ' from Auckland on 7 November 1918.

Public outrage led to the formation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry which is ongoing.

This led to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP, better known as the " McDonald Commission ," named for the presiding judge, Mr Justice David Cargill McDonald.

The creation of a " Board of the French language " was one of the recommendations of the Tremblay Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems which published its five-volume report in 1956.

* Commissions of Inquiry and ad hoc bodies ( as at October 2011 there are two Royal Commissions operating: The Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine tragedy and the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission.

He also wrote a Life of the Right Honourable Robert Boyle ( London, 1744 ); Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels ( London, 1756 ); Historical view of Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels 1592-1617 ( London, 1749 ); Life of Archbishop Tillotson ( London, 1753 ); History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1756 – 1757 ); Life of Henry, Prince of Wales ( London, 1760 ), and many other works.

As Wauchope warned of an impending military campaign and simultaneously offered to dispatch a Royal Commission of Inquiry to hear the Arab complaints, the Arab Higher Committee called off the strike on 11 October.

When the promised Royal Commission of Inquiry arrived in Palestine in November, al-Husseini testified before it as chief witness for the Arabs.

Edmond Malone exposes them in his An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments on 31 March, and the forged ' Shakespearean ' play, Vortigern and Rowena, is able to sustain just a single performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 2 April.

* Peel Commission, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Palestine, 1936 – 1937

A Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate espionage, headed by Justice Robert Taschereau and Justice Roy Kellock, was conducted into the Gouzenko Affair and his evidence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada.

Lingam Royal Commission of Inquiry.

* Chair, Royal Colleges of Pathologists ' and of Pædiatrics ' Inquiry into Sudden Infant Death ( producing a protocol for the investigation of such deaths in 2004 )

The college has published a PDF version of the 19th Century Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands report.

* Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, Annex A: ' Unnatural death ' and ' death by natural causes '

In response to a vast public outcry in Industrial Cape Breton, the minority government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced J. R. Donald would head a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Cape Breton coal industry, with hearings held in 1965 and 1966.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems or Tremblay Commission was called for by the premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis in 1953.

A Royal Commission is similar in function to a Commission of Enquiry ( or Inquiry ) found in other countries such as Ireland, South Africa, and Hong Kong.

* Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drug Trafficking (" Stewart Royal Commission "), ( 1981 – 1983 )

* Royal Commission of Inquiry in respect of certain matters relating to allegations of organised crime in clubs (" Moffitt Royal Commission ") ( 1973 – 74 ) investigated organised crime in New South Wales.

* Royal Commission of Inquiry into the illegal immigrant issue in Sabah ( 2012-)