Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 information
United Kingdom legislation
Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act to make provision for a parliamentary general election to be held on 12 December 2019.
Citation
2019 c. 29
Introduced by
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister (Commons) Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, Leader of the House of Lords (Lords)
Territorial extent
United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent
31 October 2019
Commencement
31 October 2019
Repealed
24 March 2022
Other legislation
Repealed by
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022
Relates to
Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
Status: Repealed
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The Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 (c. 29) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made legal provision for the holding of the 2019 United Kingdom general election on 12 December 2019.[1]
The Act was fast-tracked in its passage through Parliament, meaning that it completed all of its stages in the House of Commons in a single day, on 29 October 2019, and received its formal First Reading in the House of Lords on the same day. It completed its remaining stages there on 30 October, and received royal assent, thereby becoming law, on 31 October.[2][3]
The Act was a very unusual piece of constitutional legislation, as it was the first time that a United Kingdom general election had been triggered by a measure that circumvented the operation of ordinary electoral law. The ordinary law on parliamentary general elections was the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 ("FTPA"), under which elections took place every five years, except that an early general election could be triggered by the House of Commons in either of two ways: a resolution supported by at least two-thirds of the total membership of the House, or a vote of no confidence in the government, when an election must be called after fourteen days unless a motion of confidence has been passed. The 2019 Act, being a new Act, required only a simple majority of the members voting in order to pass.
The Act automatically became spent upon the conclusion of the election and was repealed by the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 on 24 March 2022.
^"UK set for 12 December general election after MPs' vote". BBC News. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
^"Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019". UK Parliament. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
^Pichetal, Rob (29 October 2019). "Britain set for December 12 election after MPs approve snap poll". Cable News Network. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
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