Meeting of Parliament Act 1799

AN ACT for empowering his Majesty to shorten the Time for the Meeting of Parliament in cases of Adjournment.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty provision is made for empowering his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to shorten the time required for giving notice of the meeting of Parliament for the dispatch of business in the case of a prorogation of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that a like power should be given to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in cases of the adjournment of Parliament: Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that in all cases where both Houses of Parliament shall stand adjourned for more than fourteen days from the day of the date of the proclamation herein-after mentioned, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to issue his and their royal proclamation, by and with the advice of his and their privy council, thereby declaring that the said Parliament shall meet on a day, being not less than fourteen days from the day of the date of such proclamation, and the Houses of Parliament shall thereupon stand adjourned to the day and place declared in such proclamation, notwithstanding any previous adjournment of the Houses of Parliament to any longer day, and notwithstanding any former law, usage or custom to the contrary.

AND all and singular the order or orders which shall have been made by either the House of Parliament, and appointed for the day to which such House of Parliament shall have been adjourned or to any day or days subsequent thereto, other than and except any order or orders that shall have been specially appointed for particular days by either House of Parliament and declared to be so fixed notwithstanding any meeting of Parliament under this Act, and also except any order or orders made under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, shall be deemed and taken to have been appointed for the day on which the Parliament shall meet in pursuance of such proclamation.