Representation of the People Act 1867

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

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1The 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 [F2or dissolved] F3... by the Crown, anything in the Succession to the M1Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding.

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F1Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)

F3Words 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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