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HOUSE OF COMMONS (DISQUALIFICATION) ACT 1801

HOUSE OF COMMONS (DISQUALIFICATION) ACT 1801 - LONG TITLE

An Act for declaring what Persons shall be disabled from sitting
and voting in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland; and also for carrying into effect Part of the
Fourth Article of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, by
providing in what cases Persons holding Offices or Places of Profit
under the Crown of Ireland shall be incapable of being Members of
the House of Commons of the Parliament of the said United
Kingdom.{1}
[20th June 1801]
Recital of 1800 c.67.

WHEREAS by the Union of Ireland Act 1800 it was amongst other
things provided, that the said kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland
should, upon the first day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into
one kingdom, by the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland; and that the said United Kingdom should be represented
in one and the same Parliament, to be stiled The Parliament of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And whereas it is
expedient fully to declare in what cases persons are and shall be
disabled from, or incapable of, sitting and voting in the House of
Commons of the said Parliament of the said United Kingdom.[

HOUSE OF COMMONS (DISQUALIFICATION) ACT 1801 - SECT 1
All persons disabled from sitting in British House of Commons shall
be disabled from sitting in the United Parliament as members for
Great Britain.

1.] From and after the passing of this Act, all persons disabled
from or incapable of being elected, or sitting and voting in the
House of Commons of any Parliament of Great Britain, shall be
disabled from and be incapable of being elected, or sitting and
voting in the House of Commons of any Parliament of the United
Kingdom, as knights, citizens, or burgesses, for any county,
stewartry, city, borough, cinque port, town, or place, in Great
Britain.

HOUSE OF COMMONS (DISQUALIFICATION) ACT 1801 - SECT 2
All persons disabled from sitting in Irish House of Commons shall
be disabled from sitting in the United Parliament as members for
Ireland.

2. And from and after the passing of this Act, all persons
disabled from or incapable of being elected, or sitting and voting
in the House of Commons of any Parliament of Ireland, shall be
disabled from and be incapable of being elected, or sitting and
voting in the House of Commons of any Parliament of the United
Kingdom, as knights, citizens, or burgesses, for any county, city,
borough, town, or place, in Ireland.

HOUSE OF COMMONS (DISQUALIFICATION) ACT 1801 - SECT 3
Persons disabled by British statutes shall not hereby be enabled to
sit for Ireland, nor e contra0.

3. Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act shall be
construed to enable persons, heretofore disabled by any Act of the
Parliament of Great Britain, from sitting and voting in the House
of Commons of Great Britain, to sit or vote in the House of
Commons of the said Parliament of the said United Kingdom, as
knights, citizens, or burgesses for any county, city, borough, town,
or place in Ireland; nor to enable persons, heretofore disabled by
any Acts of the Parliament of Ireland from sitting and voting in
the House of Commons of Ireland, to sit or vote in the House of
Commons of the Parliament of the said United Kingdom, as knights,
citizens, or burgesses, for any county, stewartry, city, borough,
cinque port, town, or place in Great Britain.

Ss.49 rep. by SLR 1872; 1937 c.38 s.11(2) sch.4; 1948 c.52 s.4;
SLR 1950; 1957 c.20 s.14 sch.4 Pt.I