Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press

The Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press is a United Kingdom royal charter approved in 2013. The Queen set her seal on the document at a meeting of the Privy Council after the failure of two High Court actions by Pressbof to prevent it.^[1] The operation of the Charter comes under two Acts of Parliament, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.^[2]

The Charter creates the Press Recognition Panel (PRP) as a corporation to carry out activities relating to the recognition of press regulators.^[3] In a last-minute change the government decided that the system would not come into effect until a year after the PRP was established, taking the process beyond the 2015 general election.^[4]

In October 2016 IMPRESS became the UK's first approved press regulator after its application for recognition under the Royal Charter was granted.^[5]

See also

• Independent Press Standards Organisation

References

1. Burrell, Ian (30 October 2013). "Queen sets seal on cross-party politicians' charter for press regulation". The Independent. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
2. Young, Toby (8 October 2013). "Nothing Maria Miller said will make the press more likely to sign up to Hacked Off's Royal Charter". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
3. Para 3.1 of Royal Charter
4. Wintour, Patrick (30 October 2013). "Press regulation royal charter given go-ahead by the Queen". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
5. "Panel Gives Alternative Press Regulator Royal Charter". Press Gazette. 25 October 2016.

External links

• "Final" version of Royal Charter
• Government website with last minute amendments