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Parliament Act 1660

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1660 c. 1
Year1660
Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angli, Scoti, Franci, &Hiberni, duodecimo, An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament.

(12 Cha. 2) C A P. I.

FOR the preventing all Doubts and Scruples concerning the Assembling, Sitting and Proceeding of this present Parliament, (2) be it declared and enacted, and it is declared and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, Thatthe Parliament begun and holden atWestminster the third Day of November in the sixteenth Yearof the Reign of the late KingCharles of blessed Memory, is fully dissolved and determined: (3) Andthat the Lords and Commons now sitting atWestminster , in this present Parliament, are the two Houses of Parliament, and so shall be, and are hereby declared, enacted and adjudged to be, to all Intents, Constructionsand Purposes whatsoever, notwithstanding any Want of the King's Majesty's Writ or Writs of Summons, or any Defect or Alteration of or in any Writ or Writs of Summons, or any other Defect or Default whatsoever; as if this Parliament had been summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesty's Name, according to the usual Form, and as if his Majesty had been present in Person at the Assembling and Commencement of this present Parliament. (4) Provided always, That...

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