GOVERNMENT HOUSE TASMANIA STANDARD PROTOCOL

(For attendance by His Excellency the Governor and Mrs Underwood)

Announcements for Arrival and Departure

Arrival:

• Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the arrival of His Excellency, the Honourable Peter Underwood, Governor of Tasmania and Mrs Underwood.

Departure:

• Ladies and gentlemen, please stand. His Excellency the Governor and Mrs Underwood are now departing.

Forms of Address

• The Governor should be addressed as “Your Excellency” when speaking to him. If engaged in a conversation, “Sir” is acceptable after the initial greeting.
• The Governor should be referred to, and introduced to others as “His Excellency the Governor.”
• The Governor's wife should be addressed as “Mrs Underwood” when speaking to her.
• Mrs Underwood should be referred to, and introduced to others as “Mrs Underwood.”

• His Excellency The Honourable Peter Underwood AC, Governor of Tasmania.
• Mrs F Underwood.

For Vice-Regal visits it is correct protocol that His Excellency and Mrs Underwood are:

• Met as they alight from the Vice-Regal vehicle,
• Escorted/accompanied throughout the event, and
• Escorted to the vehicle when they depart.