Section 51 Not necessary to dissolve Parliament on any future demise of the Crown.
United Kingdom
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
- F2
Words in s. 51 inserted (24.3.2022) by Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 (c. 11), s. 6(3), Sch. para. 2
- F3
Words 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)
Marginal citations
- M1