Re-election of Ministers Act 1919
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1919 c. 2 |
| Year | 1919 |
Re-election of Ministers Act, 1919.
(9 & 10 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 2.
An Act to make provision for restricting the necessity of the re-election of Members of the House of Commons on acceptance of office, and to make provision as to the right of certain Ministers to sit in the House of Commons.
[27th February 1919]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Amendment of law as to necessity of re-election of Ministers.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in any Act, a member of the Commons House of Parliament shall not vacate his seat by reason only of his acceptance of an office of profit if that office is an office the holder of which is capable of being elected to, or sitting or voting in, that House, and if such acceptance has taken place within nine months after the issue of a proclamation summoning a new Parliament:
Provided that this section shall not apply to the acceptance of any office mentioned in the schedule to this Act, nor shall it affect the provisions of any Act imposing a limit on the number of Secretaries or Under Secretaries of State who may sit and vote in the commons House of Parliament.
(2) Where by virtue of this section a member of the Commons House of Parliament does not vacate his seat by reason of his acceptance of any of the offices mentioned in Schedule H. of the Representation of the People Act, 1867 , and Schedule H. of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act, 1868 , and Schedule E. of the Representation of the People (Ireland) Act, 1868 , as amended by any subsequent enactment, he shall, for the purposes of section fifty-two, section fifty-one, and section eleven of those Acts, respectively, be treated as if he had been returned as a member to serve in Parliament since the acceptance by him of such office.
(3) This section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the first day of January nineteen hundred and nineteen.
2 Right of certain Ministers to sit in the House of Commons.
2. Where, before or after the passing of this Act, a member of His Majesty's Privy Council has been or is appointed to be a Minister of the Crown at a salary, without any other office being assigned to him, he shall not by reason thereof...
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