The London Gazette
| The London Gazette link | |
|---|---|
 The front page from Monday 3 - 10 September 1666, reporting on the Fire of London. | |
| Type | newspaper |
| Founded | 7 November 1665 |
| Author(s) | |
| One of the official journals of record of the British government. | |
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.
Current publication
The London Gazette is published each weekday, except for bank holidays. Notices for the following, among others, are published:
- Granting of royal assent to bills of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or of the Scottish Parliament
- The issuance of writs of election when a vacancy occurs in the House of Commons
- Appointments to certain public offices
- Commissions in the Armed Forces and subsequent promotion of officers
- Corporate and personal insolvency
- Granting of awards of honours and military medals
- Changes of names or of coats of arms
- Royal proclamations and other declarations
The Stationery Office has digitised all issues of The Gazette, and these are available online.[1]
The official Gazettes are published by The Stationery Office. The content is available in a number of machine-readable formats, including XML (delivery by email/FTP) and XML/RDFa via Atom feed.[2]