Representation of the People Act
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Representation of the People Act is a short title
for legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
dealing with the electoral system.
Short title
The short title is the formal name by which a piece of primary legislation may by law be cited in the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions , as well as the United States. It contrasts with the long title which, while usually being more fully descriptive of the...
for legislation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...
dealing with the electoral system.
List
- The Representation of the People Act 1832
- The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832
- The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832
- The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1835
- The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1850
- The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1861
- The Representation of the People Act 1867
- The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868The Representation of the People Act 1868 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It carried on from the Representation of the People Act 1867, and created seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons at the expense of seven English borough constituencies, which were...
- The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868The Representation of the People Act 1868 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.It did not alter the overall distribution of parliamentary seats in Ireland, but did alter their boundaries, including making the electoral constituency of a borough be the same as its municipal boundaries....
- The Representation of the People Act 1884Representation of the People Act 1884In the United Kingdom, the Representation of the People Act 1884 and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in Britain after the Disraeli Government's Reform Act 1867...
- The Representation of the People Act 1918Representation of the People Act 1918The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in the United Kingdom. It is sometimes known as the Fourth Reform Act...
- The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 1918
- The Representation of the People (Returning Officers' Expenses) Act 1919
- The Representation of the People Act 1920
- The Representation of the People (No. 2) Act 1920
- The Representation of the People Act 1921
- The Representation of the People Act 1922
- The Representation of the People (No. 2) Act 1922
- The Representation of the People (Economy Provisions) Act 1926 — an alternative citation for Part III of the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1926
- The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928The Representation of the People Act 1928 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This act expanded on the Representation of the People Act 1918 which had given some women the vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time after World War I. It widened suffrage by giving women...
- The Representation of the People (Reading University) Act 1928
- The Representation of the People Act 1945
- The Representation of the People Act 1948Representation of the People Act 1948The Representation of the People Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the law relating to parliamentary and local elections...
- The Representation of the People Act 1949Representation of the People Act 1949The Representation of the People Act 1949 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act consolidated previous electoral law, but also made some changes to administration....
- The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 1957
- The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act 1958
- The Representation of the People Act 1969Representation of the People Act 1969The Representation of the People Act 1969 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It extended suffrage to 18-20 year olds. Previously, only those 21 or over were permitted to vote...
- The Representation of the People Act 1974
- The Representation of the People (No. 2) Act 1974
- The Representation of the People (Armed Forces) Act 1976
- The Representation of the People Act 1977
- The Representation of the People Act 1978
- The Representation of the People Act 1979
- The Representation of the People Act 1980
- The Representation of the People Act 1981Representation of the People Act 1981The Representation of the People Act 1981 provides: for the disqualification from membership of the House of Commons of any person who is detained anywhere in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland for more than a year for any offence, that the election or nomination of such persons shall be...
- The Representation of the People Act 1983Representation of the People Act 1983The Representation of the People Act 1983 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the British electoral process in the following ways:* Amended the Representation of the People Act 1969....
- The Representation of the People Act 1985Representation of the People Act 1985The Representation of the People Act 1985 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning British electoral law.The Act allows British citizens who are resident outside the United Kingdom to qualify as "overseas electors" in the constituency for which they were last registered for a...
- The Representation of the People Act 1989Representation of the People Act 1989The Representation of the People Act 1989 is an act by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It extended the time that a British citizen could have lived abroad and still vote from 5 years to 20 years, and extended this right to people who were too young to vote at the time of leaving Britain....
- The Representation of the People Act 1990Representation of the People Act 1990The Representation of the People Act 1990 added a minor amendment to previous Acts. The act allowed a person no longer resident at their qualifying address or at any other address in the same area to be eligible for an absentee vote for an indefinite period at Parliamentary elections in the...
- The Representation of the People Act 1991
- The Representation of the People Act 1993
- The Representation of the People Act 2000Representation of the People Act 2000The Representation of the People Act 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the British electoral process in the following ways:* It amended the Representation of the People Act 1983....