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The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 [1] [2] (c. 11) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 and reinstated the prior constitutional situation, by reviving the power of the monarch to dissolve and summon parliament.
At the 2015 general election, the period between the dissolution of the previous Parliament and the meeting of the new Parliament was the longest period the United Kingdom had been without a Parliament since 1924. [20] The 2017 general election was called by virtue of a motion for an early general election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
This prerogative power to dissolve Parliament was removed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, but was revived by the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. A Parliament dissolves automatically five years after its first meeting unless dissolved earlier. [34]
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An Act to make provision about the dissolution of Parliament and the determination of polling days for parliamentary general elections; and for connected purposes. Citation: 2011 c. 14: Introduced by: Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister (Commons) Lord Wallace of Tankerness, Advocate General for Scotland (Lords) Territorial extent United Kingdom
An Act to make provision about the dissolution of Parliament and the determination of polling days for parliamentary general elections; and for connected purposes. (Repealed by Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 (c. 11))
The convention was in abeyance from 2011 to 2022, when the sovereign's prerogative power to dissolve Parliament was removed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Following passage of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, these principles are thought to have been revived. [1]
The royal prerogative to dissolve Parliament was abrogated by Section 3(2) of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, [18] and revived by the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which repealed the 2011 Act. [19]