Meeting of Parliament Act 1870 (c.81)

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Meeting of Parliament Act 1870

1870 c.81 33_and_34_Vict

An Act to amend the Acts of the thirty-seventh year of King George the Third, chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, and the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of King George the Third, chapter fourteen.

[9th August 1870]

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1	Act amended by Parliament (Elections and Meeting) Act 1943 (c. 48), s. 34
C2	Preamble (which recites Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 (c. 127) and Meeting of Parliament Act 1799 (39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 14)) omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)

Short title.

This Act may be cited as “The Meeting of Parliament Act 1870.”

Summoning of Parliament.

Parliament may be summoned by a Royal Proclamation in manner provided by the recited Acts, to meet on any day not less than six days from the day of the date of such proclamation, and the recited Acts, so far as they relate to such summoning of Parliament, shall be construed as if six days were therein substituted for fourteen days.

Version no	Start date	End date	Extent	Confers power	Blanket amendment
> 1	01/02/1991		E+W+S+N.I.	N	N

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