# Representation of the People Act 1867

30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 · enacted 15 August 1867 · revised to 24 March 2022

An Act further to amend the Laws relating to the Representation of the People in England and Wales.

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1867/pdf/ukpga_18670102_en.pdf

## Introductory text

An Act further to amend the Laws relating to the Representation of the People in England and Wales.
[15th August 1867]

## 1 Short title.

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.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The 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 or dissolved ... by the Crown, anything in the Succession to the Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding.

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## Schedule S (A.)—(H.) 

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/30-31/102 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1867
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