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PARLIAMENT ACT 1911 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision with respect to the powers of the House of Lords in
relation to those of the House of Commons, and to limit the duration of
Parliament. [18th August 1911] WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should
be made for regulating the relations between the two Houses of Parliament:

And Whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at
present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary
basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation:

And Whereas provision will require hereafter to be made by Parliament in a
measure effecting such substitution for limiting and defining the powers of
the new Second Chamber, but it is expedient to make such provision as in
this Act appears for restricting the existing powers of the House of Lords:

© 1911 Crown Copyright

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