Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695

Not to be confused with the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695.

Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695

Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act to prevent False and Double Returns of Members to Serve in Parliament.
Citation	7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 7
Dates
Royal assent	13 February 1696
Other legislation
Amended by	Parliament (No. 3) Act 1712 Statute Law Revision Act 1867 Statute Law Revision Act 1888
Repealed by	Representation of the People Act 1949
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Parliament (No. 3) Act 1712
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for making perpetual an Act, made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of the late King William, intituled, "An Act to prevent false and double Returns of Members to serve in Parliament."
Citation	12 Ann. c. 16 (Ruffhead: 12 Ann. St. 1 c. 15)
Dates
Royal assent	16 July 1713
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amends	Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Status: Repealed

The Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 7) was an Act of the Parliament of England.

The provisions as to procuring returns in sections 3 and 4 ceased to have effect by virtue of section 74(5) of, and Schedule 11 to, the Representation of the People Act 1948.

The whole Act except section 5 was, and in section 5 the words "and for the more easy and better proof of any such false or double return" and the words from "and that the party" to the end of the section were, repealed by section 80(7) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Representation of the People Act 1948.

The whole Act was repealed by section 175(1) of, and Schedule 9 to, the Representation of the People Act 1949.

The whole Act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Electoral Act 1963.

References

• Halsbury's Statutes,

External links

• Text of the Act
• List of repeals in the Republic of Ireland from the Irish Statute Book