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  2. Section 99 of the Constitution Act, 1867 - Wikipedia

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    This was changed in 1960, when the House of Commons and the Senate passed resolutions calling on the British government to introduce an amendment to create mandatory retirement at age 75. The Constitution Act, 1960 renumbered the original part of section 99 as sub-section (1), and added sub-section (2), which set the retirement age at 75. [13]

  3. Constitution of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    (London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog by Claude Monet, 1904). Parliament (from old French, parler, "to talk") is the UK's highest law-making body.. Although the British constitution is not codified, the Supreme Court recognises constitutional principles, [10] and constitutional statutes, [11] which shape the use of political power. There are at least four main ...

  4. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1847

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    An Act to alter and amend an Act, intituled "An Act for providing in or near the Burgh of Cupar more extensive Accommodation for holding the Courts and Meetings of the Sheriff, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Fife; and for the Custody of the Records of the said County;" [c] and to authorize the Commissioners ...

  5. United Kingdom constitutional law - Wikipedia

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    With parliamentary sovereignty as the cornerstone of the new constitution, Parliament proceeded to set up a system of finance in the Bank of England Act 1694 and the Act of Settlement 1700 created an independent system of justice: judges were salaried and could not be removed except by both Houses of Parliament, no member of the House of ...

  6. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1867

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    An Act to further continue the Act of the Twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One, intituled "An Act to empower the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend, and detain for a limited Time, such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and ...

  7. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1951

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    An Act to bring certain works for making good war damage within the definition of development in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, [d] and the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, [e] and within the Third Schedule to each of those Acts; and to extend the period limited by section twenty-three of the first-mentioned Act for ...

  8. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1949

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    An Act to indemnify John Burns Hynd, Esquire, John James Robertson, Esquire, and Albert Evans, Esquire, from any penal consequences which they may have incurred under the Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, the House of Commons (Disqualification) Act, 1782, or the House of Commons (Disqualifications) Act, 1801, in respect of certain matters ...

  9. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1900

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    The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c.