{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recess-elections-act-1975/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recess-elections-act-1975/schedule-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/66",
  "legislation_title": "Recess Elections Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recess-elections-act-1975",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Certificate of Vacancy",
  "text": "We, whose names are underwritten, being two Members of the House of Commons, do hereby certify—\n[that Member of\nParliament for died on\n19 ;]\n[that Member of\nParliament for has become disqualified as a\npeer for membership of the House Commons ;]\n[that Member of\nParliament for has accepted\nthe office of , and\nthat his appointment to that office has been gazetted in the\nissue of the\nGazette dated 19 ;]\nand we give you this notice to the intent that you may issue your warrant to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery to make out a new writ for the election of a Member to serve as Member of Parliament for in place of him.\nTo the Speaker of the House of Commons.\nNote. If there is no Speaker, or if the Speaker is out of the United Kingdom, this certificate may be addressed to any one of the persons appointed under section 4 of the Recess Elections Act 1975 to exercise the Speaker’s powers under that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 substituted (11.11.1999) by 1999 c. 34, s. 4(1), Sch. 1 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/66/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:04.744824+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}