# Representation of the People Act 1867, Section 51: Not necessary to dissolve Parliament on any future demise of the Crown.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/30-31/102/section/51 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/representation-of-the-people-act-1867/section-51
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