The British Government will have to decide whether to let U.S. coal in.

* 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

* 1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land ( state ) of Schleswig-Holstein.

The term the Government always takes a plural verb in British civil service convention, perhaps to emphasize the principle of cabinet collective responsibility.

The British Government took the decision to found the Botany Bay colony in mid 1786.

The British Virgin Islands were administered variously as part of the British Leeward Islands or with St. Kitts and Nevis, with an administrator representing the British Government on the Islands.

The Governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British Government.

32 % of workers employed in the British Virgin Islands work for the Government.

After appeals by the Batswana leaders Khama III, Bathoen and Sebele for assistance, the British Government on 31 March 1885 put " Bechuanaland " under its protection.

The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.

A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

Formally, as per the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the BSI and the United Kingdom Government, British Standards are defined as:

In 1929, George Lawson Johnston was recognised by the British Government and monarchy and was ennobled as Lord Luke of Pavenham in the county of Bedford.

Cameron then apologised on behalf of the British Government by saying he was " deeply sorry ".

The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act of 1858 to this effect, which set up the structure of British government in India.

It also established the office of the Governor-General of India along with an Executive Council in India, which consisted of high officials of the British Government.

The prosecution in the trial was forced to reveal that the British Government had planted moles ( and used wire taps ) throughout the banking industry using MI6, at the consent of the Governor.

In 1933, the Soviet Government sold the Codex Sinaiticus for 100, 000 pounds to the British Museum in London, England.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

In this case the profits made by a defecting spy, George Blake, for the publication of his book, were awarded to the British Government for breach of contract.

* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.

In April 1966 the British Government bought the entire assets of the Chagos Agalega Company in the BIOT for £ 600, 000 and administered them as a government enterprise while awaiting US funding of the proposed facilities, with an interim objective of paying for the administrative expenses of the new territory.

The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.

The criminal law in India is derived from the colonial-era British system and is codified in the Criminal Procedure Code ( CrPC ).

The British system of government is based on an " unwritten " constitution, meaning that it is not codified into a single document.

Currently, Hong Kong has three branches of government as codified in the Basic Law, which preserves the political setup of the British colonial era under the doctrine of one country, two systems:

The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).

The independent position of the Dominions in the British Empire ( later the Commonwealth ) and in the international community was put on a firm foundation by the Balfour Declaration of 1926, subsequently codified in the Statute of Westminster ( 1931 ).

Unlike the uncodified British constitution, most countries that use the Westminster system have codified the system in a written constitution.

Subsequently, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave Sudetenland to Hitler in the ( ultimately vain ) hope of preventing a war, as codified in the Munich Agreement.

Although the formative influences on the genre were primarily British, the bands that developed and codified power pop in the 1970s were nearly all American.

As diplomatic Residents ( as diplomatic ranks were codified, this became a lower class than Ambassadors and High Commissioners ) were sometimes appointed to native rulers, High Commissioners could likewise be appointed as British agents of indirect rule upon native states.

Entitlement to the status of British subject was first codified by the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, which came into effect on 1 January 1915.

The influence of British sports and their codified rules began to spread across the world in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly association football.

Examples of jurisdictions with codified U-turn prohibitions include the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia and the States of Illinois and Oregon.

Nancy Lancaster ( 9 September 1897 – 19 August 1994 ) was a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, an influential British decorating firm that codified what is known as the English country-house look.

Throughout British North America, slavery evolved in practice before it was codified into law.

The British North America Act of 1867 formally codified this policy, allowing for government control over coinage, currency, bills of exchange, promissory notes, banking, and incorporation of banks.

This was tacitly codified in the Treaty of As Sib in 1920, brokered by the British political agent in Muscat.

Capital punishment in New Zealand first appeared in a codified form when New Zealand became a British territory in 1840, and was first employed in 1842.

But he was among those who codified a sport which became the leading part of British cycle-racing, even though its officials were so uncertain of their creation that they refused to tell the police, referred to courses and dates in code, held their races in the country at dawn, demanded riders dress completely in black, and banned even the sport's own press from saying when races would be held.

On the other hand, the British codified laws pertaining to practices within religions on the sub-continents.

This codified for the first time the law relating to British nationality.

Half Holiday helped established the financial viability of the medium and codified the British form to an extent visible many years later in publications such as Viz.