On 7 Jul 2003 05:10:02 GMT, Alun Palmer wrote:

Does the UK have to take the new treaty before Lord So-and-so who
takes it into committee and then to the House of Lords for a debate
followed by a vote and thence to the Queen to make it binding on the
UK or can the Director-General of the RA do that at the stroke of a
(ball-point quill) pen?

They have to have a consultation period, but the RA 'cheated' by
publishing the consultation document before the WRC!

In my sporadic dealings with them in the mid-1960s I was always
impressed by how the GPO (predecessor to the RA) could cut corners
where the FCC couldn't - or wouldn't .....

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane