Representation of the People Act 1867

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This Act shall be cited for all purposes as “The Representation of the People Act 1867.]

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51 Not necessary to dissolve Parliament on any future demise of the Crown.U.K.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 F6... by the Crown, anything in the Succession to the M1Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding.

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F5Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)

F6Words 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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