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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Monday 13 December 2010

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

1241-42 and 1253

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill, As Amended

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

2

 

Page  4,  line  4  [Schedule],  leave out ‘“or dissolve”’ and insert ‘“prorogue or dissolve

 

Parliaments nor”’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

3

 

Page  4,  line  6  [Schedule],  at end insert—

 

‘Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 (c. 127)

 

2A         

The Meeting of Parliament Act 1797 is repealed.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

4

 

Page  4,  line  8  [Schedule],  leave out ‘“or dissolved” where it occurs second’ and insert

 

‘“unless it should be sooner prorogued or dissolved by the Crown, anything in the

 

Succession to the Crown Act 1707 in any way notwithstanding”.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

5

 

Page  1,  line  5  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘7 May 2015’ and insert ‘1 May 2014’.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 13 December 2010                  

1272

 

Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

6

 

Page  1,  line  7  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘fifth’ and insert ‘fourth’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

7

 

Page  1,  line  13  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘“fifth” there were substituted “fourth”’ and

 

insert ‘“fourth” there were substituted “third”’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

8

 

Page  2,  line  29  [Clause  3],  leave out ‘17th’ and insert ‘25th’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

9

 

Page  2,  line  39  [Clause  3],  at end insert ‘within 15 working days of the polling

 

day’.

 

Prorogation of Parliament

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Parliament can only be prorogued in accordance with this section.

 

(2)    

If the House of Commons resolves that Parliament should be prorogued,

 

Parliament shall be prorogued at that time.

 

(3)    

The Speaker of the House of Commons shall not make such a declaration unless

 

the House of Commons has passed a resolution directing him to do so on or before

 

a specified date and time.

 

(4)    

Where Parliament is prorogued under subsection (2) above, the Speaker may by

 

declaration prorogue it to an ealier or later day.

 

(5)    

The Prorogation Act 1867 is repealed.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

10

 

Page  1,  line  8  [Clause  1],  at end insert ‘, no notice being taken of any early

 

parliamentary general election as provided for in section 2.’.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 13 December 2010                  

1273

 

Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill, continued

 
 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

11

 

Page  1,  line  9  [Clause  1],  leave out subsection (4).

 


 
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