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    The Recall of MPs Act 2015 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes provision for constituents to recall their member of Parliament...
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  • 2014) "Bill stages — Recall of MPs Act 2015". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 23 May 2015. "Recall of MPs Act 2015 - Legislation PDF" (PDF)...
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    the Recall of MPs Act 2015, sitting MPs imprisoned on shorter sentences can be removed from their seats via recall petitions. The Act was passed following...
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  • from the House of Commons in June 2023 for 30 days for breaching COVID-19 regulations in 2020. In accordance with the Recall of MPs Act 2015, this suspension...
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    Fiona Onasanya (category Black British MPs)
    successful recall petition, automatically triggered in cases of a custodial sentence of a year or less, under the Recall of MPs Act 2015. This prompted...
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    lesser acts of wrongdoing, the Recall of MPs Act 2015 mandates that a recall petition be opened; if signed by more than 10% of registered voters within the...
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  • Suspension from the UK parliament (category Parliament of the United Kingdom)
    suspensions of at least 10 sitting days and/or 14 calendar days trigger recall petitions under the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015. Members of the House...
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    Claudia Webbe (category Black British MPs)
    was not custodial, it did not trigger a constituency recall petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015. Claudia Webbe was born on 8 March 1965 in Leicester...
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    Ireland Act 1998, which repealed the Government of Ireland Act 1920, does not use any term to describe Northern Ireland. The Interpretation Act 1978 provides...
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    the length of the sentence was made. The Recall of MPs Act 2015 is triggered by any custodial sentence, even if suspended, meaning a recall petition would...
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    and the right to sit as MPs, which would only come to pass under the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. From the perspective of Great Britain's elites, the...
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    constituency of Wellingborough. This followed a recall petition held in late 2023 that removed the incumbent MP Peter Bone under the terms of the Recall of MPs Act...
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    Peter Bone (category UK MPs 2010–2015)
    inappropriate around a former member of staff. This in turn triggered a recall petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015 for his Wellingborough constituency...
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  • "BRITISH-IRISH AGREEMENT ACT, 1999 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1999, S.I. No. 377 of 1999". Irishstatutebook.ie. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 28...
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    the 2017 snap election. The Recall of MPs Act 2015 created a mechanism for recalling Members of Parliament. Under the act, proceedings are initiated only...
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    The Act was amended by the Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 to end the link between the number of MPs at Westminster and the number of constituency...
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    Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide...
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    Acts of Union refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the...
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    The British Nationality Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 56) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on British nationality law which defined British...
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  • Thumbnail for Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022
    and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 (c. 11) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 and reinstated...
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  • Treaty of Perth, signed 2 July 1266, ended military conflict between Magnus the Lawmender of Norway and Alexander III of Scotland over possession of the...
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  • Thumbnail for 2018 North Antrim recall petition
    introduced by the Recall of MPs Act 2015. It was triggered when North Antrim's MP, Ian Paisley Jr, was suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days...
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    (mostly Ulster MPs) backed the amending bill, which provided for "temporary exclusion of Ulster" from the workings of the future Act. The Lords' amendments...
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  • petitions via the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015, the first such in the country. At the dissolution of Parliament in 2019 there were two vacancies:...
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    The European Union Referendum Act 2015 (c. 36) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made legal provision for a consultative referendum...
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  • Thumbnail for Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
    The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets out how political parties, elections...
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    European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to repeal the European Communities Act 1972, and for parliamentary...
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    5 March 2019. Under the Recall of MPs Act 2015, any MP who receives a prison sentence of a year or less is subject to a recall petition, though the procedure...
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    Mike Amesbury (category Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies)
    of his sentence in prison, with the rest spent on licence. The custodial sentence would have triggered a recall petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015...
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  • proliferated, and in 1609, the king had an act passed that promised the direst penalties against the writers of "pasquillis, libellis, rymis, cockalanis...
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