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2 ":The Right Honourable Dame Helen Diana Winkelmann


 * The Honourable Sir William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young, and


 * The Honourable Dame Susan Gwynfa Mary Glazebrook

or any two of them diligently attend in the premises, at the opening of the said Parliament.

In Testimony Whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, at Wellington on the 6$th$ day of November in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty and in the 69$th$ Year of Our Reign.

Witness Our Trusty and Well-beloved The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, Chancellor and Dame Grand Companion of Our New Zealand Order of Merit, Principal Companion of Our Service Order, Governor-General and Commander-inChief in and over the Realm of New Zealand.

Jacinda Ardern

By Her Excellency’s Command."

CHIEF COMMISSIONER (Rt Hon Dame Helen Winkelmann):

"Whereas, by Proclamation published on 7 September 2020, the Parliament of New Zealand was summoned to meet on 24 December 2020:

And whereas I have thought fit to summon it to meet on an earlier day:

Now, therefore, pursuant to section 18 of the Constitution Act 1986, I, The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand, summon the Parliament of New Zealand to meet in the parliamentary precincts in the City of Wellington, at 11.00 a.m. on 25 November 2020.

Given under the hand of Her Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, on 6 November 2020.

JACINDA ARDERN, Prime Minister.

E ngā rangatira o te Whare e tū nei:

Members of the House of Representatives:

We have it in command from Her Excellency the Governor-General to inform you that on 26 November 2020 at 10.30 a.m., Her Excellency the Governor-General will declare to you in person the cause of her summoning this Parliament to meet.

But since it is necessary that a Speaker of the House of Representatives be first chosen, Her Excellency requests that you, members of Parliament, now proceed to choose one of your members to fill that high and important office, and that having chosen that person, you present that person at 1.45 p.m., today, 25 November 2020 at Government House at Wellington for Her Excellency’s confirmation.

E te Whare, koinei te kupu a Te Kāwana

Turuturu ō whiti whakamaua kia tina!

Tina!

Haumi e, hui e!

Tāiki e!" The Commissioners then withdrew.