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Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

Section 7: Final provisions

38.Subsection (1) contains the short title of the Act, and subsection (2) provides that the Act comes into force on Royal Assent.

39.Subsections (4)-(6) provide that the Prime Minister is to make arrangements in 2020 for a committee to carry out a review of the operation of the Act. If appropriate, the committee is to make recommendations for the repeal or amendment of the Act, and the Prime Minister must make arrangements for the publication of the committee’s findings and recommendations. A majority of the members of the committee are to be MPs.

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