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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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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2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election (redirect from 2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West recall petition)
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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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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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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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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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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Ireland Act 1998, which repealed the Government of Ireland Act 1920, does not use any term to describe Northern Ireland.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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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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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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2024 Wellingborough by-election (redirect from 2023 Wellingborough recall petition)
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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Good Friday Agreement (redirect from Good Friday Agreement of 1998)
"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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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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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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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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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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2019 Peterborough by-election (redirect from 2019 Peterborough recall petition)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5. c. 4) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that authorised the alteration of the British monarch's...
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provision in section 2 of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 for early general elections following support from two-thirds or more of MPs. Blick, Andrew; Allen...
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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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and other Salaries Act 1975 restricts higher payment of salaries to a set number of MPs. Along with a hereditary monarch, the House of Lords remains an...
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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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North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885)
2018 North Antrim was the site of the first recall petition UK held in the under the provisions of the Recall of MPs Act 2015. This petition was launched...
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