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Re-election of Ministers Act 1915

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1915 c. 50


Re-election of Ministers Act, 1915.

(5 & 6 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 50.

An Act to make temporary provision for rendering unnecessary the Re-election of Members of the House of Commons on Acceptance of Office.

[4th June 1915]

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:

S-1 Necessity for re-election of Ministers suspended.

1 Necessity for re-election of Ministers suspended.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in any Act, a member of the House of Commons shall not vacate his seat by reason only of his acceptance, at any time during the months of May and June nineteen hundred and fifteen, of an office of profit, if that office is an office the holder of which is by law capable of being elected to, or sitting, or voting in that House.

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have had effect as from the first day of May nineteen hundred and fifteen.

(3) This Act shall not apply to the acceptance of any of the offices mentioned in the Schedule to this Act.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theRe-election of Ministers Act, 1915.

S C H E D U L E.

Office of Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty's three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough, and Burnham.

Office of Steward or Bailiff of the Manors of East Hendred, Northstead, or Hempholme.

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