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The East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 17) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in 1873, that formally dissolved the British East India Company. The act was one of the East India Loans Acts 1859 to 1893. [2]
Major Peter Oweh, Common Cryer and Serjeant-at-Arms of the City of London, reading the dissolution proclamation at the Royal Exchange, London, on 31 May 2024. The dissolution of the Parliament of the United Kingdom occurs automatically five years after the day on which Parliament first met following a general election, [1] or on an earlier date by royal proclamation at the advice of the prime ...
An Act to repeal certain Acts relating to the Governor and Company of Merchants of England trading to the Levant Seas, and the Duties payable to them; and to authorize the Transfer and Disposal of the Possessions and Property of the said Governor and Company, for the Public Service. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 91))
The proposed Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill emphasised the non-justiciability of the revived prerogative powers, prevented courts from making certain rulings in relation to a Government's power to dissolve Parliament. It received royal assent over two years later, on 24 March 2022.
Each Parliament comes to an end, after a number of sessions, in anticipation of a general election. Parliament is dissolved by virtue of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 and previously the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Prior to that, dissolution was effected by the Sovereign, always on the advice of the Prime Minister.
The East India Company (EIC) [a] (1600–1874) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region , initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
An Act to provide money for the payment of calls on share capital in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited, acquired under the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Acquisition of Capital) Amendment Act, 1919, and to amend the law with respect to the application of dividends or interest on capital held in the said Company.
An Act to provide for the dissolution of the Torquay Market Company and the vesting of its undertaking in Torquay Market Company Limited; to repeal the Torquay Market Acts 1855 [g] and 1974; [h] and for other purposes.