Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695

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Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695 [a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of England
Long title An Act to prevent False and Double Returns of Members to Serve in Parliament. [b]
Citation 7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 7
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 13 February 1696
Commencement 22 November 1695 [c]
Repealed3 April 1950
Other legislation
Amended by
Repealed by Representation of the People Act 1949
Relates to Parliamentary Elections Act 1695
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Returns to Parliament Act 1700
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of England
Long title An Act for continuing a former Act to prevent false and Double Returns of Members to serve in Parliament.
Citation 12 & 13 Will. 3. c. 5
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 12 June 1701
Commencement 6 February 1701 [c]
Repealed15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amends
  • Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695
Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Parliament (No. 3) Act 1712
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of Great Britain
Long title An Act for making perpetual an Act, made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of the late King William, intituled, "An Act to prevent false and double Returns of Members to serve in Parliament."
Citation
Territorial extent  England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent 16 July 1713
Commencement 9 April 1713 [c]
Repealed15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amends
  • Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695
Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695 [a] (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 7) was an act of the Parliament of England.

Contents

Subsequent developments

The provisions as to procuring returns in sections 3 and 4 ceased to have effect by virtue of section 74(5) of, and schedule 11 to, the Representation of the People Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 65).

The whole act except section 5 was, and in section 5 the words "and for the more easy and better proof of any such false or double return" and the words from "and that the party" to the end of the section were, repealed by section 80(7) of, and schedule 13 to, the Representation of the People Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 65).

The whole act was repealed by section 175(1) of, and schedule 9 to, the Representation of the People Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 68).

The whole act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 3 of, and schedule 1 to, the Electoral Act 1963.

Notes

  1. 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 5 of, and the second schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948. Due to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ↑ These words are printed against this act in the second column of the second schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".
  3. 1 2 3 Start of session.
  4. ↑ This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm .
  5. ↑ This is the citation in The Statutes at Large .

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