An Act further to amend the Laws relating to the Representation of the People in England and Wales.
[15th August 1867]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
C2The Representation of the People Acts are modified by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), s. 20(2)(b) and (N.I.) by s. 10, Sch. 1 Pt. IV para. 24 of that Act
C3Act: s. 46(1)-(4) construed as part of the Representation of the People Acts (1.1.2007 for E.W.S., 1.7.2008 for N.I.) by Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 12), ss. 46(5), 77; S.I. 2006/3412, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 14(v) (with Sch. 2); S.I. 2008/1316, arts. 2(2), 4(s)
C4Act: power to modify conferred by Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), s. 4(4)(a) (with Sch. 11 para. 22) the amending provision coming into force immediately after "the 2007 election" (held on 3.5.2007) subject to s. 161(4)(5) of the amending Act, which provides for certain provisions to come into force for specified purposes immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 26, 161(4)(5) of the amending Act
C5Act: power to modify conferred by Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), s. 13(4)(5)(a) (with Sch. 11 para. 22) the amending provision coming into force immediately after "the 2007 election" (held on 3.5.2007) subject to s. 161(4)(5) of the amending Act, which provides for certain provisions to come into force for specified purposes immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 26, 161(4)(5) of the amending Act
C6Act: power to apply or incorporate (with modifications) conferred (15.9.2011) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), ss. 58(1)-(3)(7), 157(3)(a)
C7Act: power to apply or incorporate (with modifications) conferred (25.4.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), ss. 54(2)-(5), 157(1); S.I. 2012/1129, art. 2(b)
C8Act: power to apply (with modifications) conferred by 1998 c. 46, s. 12(4)(5) (as substituted (18.5.2017) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 4(1), 72(4)(a); S.I. 2017/608, reg. 2(1)(b))
This Act shall be cited for all purposes as “The Representation of the People Act 1867.”]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 repealed by Representation of the People Act 1949 (c. 68), Sch. 9
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 2–6 repealed by Representation of the People Act 1949 (c. 68), Sch. 9
Textual Amendments
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5The Parliament in being at any future demise of the Crown shall not be determined or dissolved by such demise, but shall continue so long as it would have continued but for such demise, unless it should be sooner prorogued [F6or dissolved] F7... by the Crown, anything in the Succession to the M1Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding.
Textual Amendments
F5Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
F6Words in s. 51 inserted (24.3.2022) by Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 (c. 11), s. 6(3), Sch. para. 2
F7Words in s. 51 omitted (15.9.2011) by virtue of Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (c. 14), s. 7(2), Sch. para. 3 (with s. 6)
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