In turn, The London Gazette carries not only notices of UK-wide interest, but also those relating specifically to entities or people in England and Wales.

However, certain notices that are only of specific interest to Scotland or Northern Ireland are also required to be published in The London Gazette.

Publication of the Gazette was transferred to the private sector in 2006, under government supervision, when HMSO was sold and renamed The Stationery Office.

(Modern secondary sources may adjust the start of the calendar year during this period to 1 January, while retaining the original day and month.

Being "gazetted" (or "in the gazette") also meant having official notice of one's bankruptcy published,[10] as in the classic ten-line poem comparing the stolid tenant farmer of 1722 to the lavishly spending faux-genteel farmers of 1822:[11] Man to the plough / Wife to the cow Girl to the yarn / Boy to the barn And your rent will be netted.

Man tally-ho / Miss piano Wife silk and satin / Boy Greek and Latin And you'll all be Gazetted.