Representation of the People Act

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Representation of the People Act is a stock short title used in Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Mauritius, Pakistan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the United Kingdom and Vanuatu for legislation dealing with the electoral system.[1] Representation of the People Acts is a collective title for legislation relating to representation of the people, including Rating Acts and other Registration Acts.[2] The title was first used in the United Kingdom in the 1832 Great Reform Act and was adopted in other countries of, or formerly part of, the British Empire.[3][4]

Antigua and Barbuda[]

  • The Representation of the People Act 1975 (No 19)[5][6]

Bahamas[]

  • The Representation of the People Act, 1969 (No 40)
  • The Representation of the People Amendment Act, 1975 (No 25)[7][8]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1977 (No 3)[9]
  • The Representation of the People Amendment Act, 1981 (No 6)[10]
  • The Representation of the People Amendment Act, 1982 (No 1)[11][12]

Bangladesh[]

  • The Representation of the People Order, 1972[13]

Barbados[]

An Act of Barbados passed on 6 June 1840 had the title "An Act to amend the representation of the people of this Island, and to declare who shall be liable to serve on Juries".[14] An Act supplemental to this Act was passed on 30 December 1842.[15]

  • The (No 54) (c 64)[16][17]
  • The (Act 36)[18]
  • The (Act 6)
  • The (No 13) also called the Representation of the People Act, 1898[19][20]
  • The (No 2)
  • The Representation of the People Act (1951) (No 40)[21]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1953[22][23]
  • The Representation of the People Act, 1955 (No 46)[24][25]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1956 (No 52)[26][27]
  • The Representation of the People Act, 1957 (No 50)[28][21][29][30]
  • The (No 15)[31][32][33][21][34]

Belize[]

  • The Representation of the People Ordinance, 1953 (No 13)[35]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance, 1953 (No 25)[36][37]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance, 1960 (No 8)[38][39][40]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance, 1968 (No 8)
  • The [41][42]
  • The [43][44]

Ghana[]

Grenada[]

  • The Representation of the People Act 1993 (No 35) (Cap 286A)[55][56]

Guyana[]

  • The (No 3)[57][58]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance, 1961[59]
  • The Representation of the People Act (1964) (Cap 1.03)[60][61]
  • The (No 16)[62][63]

India[]

Jamaica[]

Mauritius[]

  • The Representation of the People Act 1958,[81] also called the Representation of the People Ordinance, 1958 (No 14)[82][83]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance (1960) (No 7)[84]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance (1961) (No 70)[85]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance 1965 (No 40)[86][87]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act (1968) (No 12)[88]

Pakistan[]

  • The Representation of the People Act 1976[89]

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[]

  • The Representation of the People Act, 1982 (No 7)[90][91][92]
  • The (No 8)[93]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1992 (No 10)[94]
  • The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1998 (No 1)

United Kingdom[]

The expression "Act to amend the Representation of the People" appears in the title of the Act that was subsequently given the short title "the Representation of the People Act 1832", and that Act was referred to by that expression in 1832.[95] Some Representation of the People Acts are considered to be Reform Acts.[96] Although it has no special status or priority in law, the 1918 Act, dealing with universal voting and other matters of political representation, could be viewed as part of a body of statue law making up the Constitution of the United Kingdom.[97] The title was adopted in other countries of, or formerly part of, the British Empire as they adopted the Westminster system of government.[3][4]

Vanuatu[]

  • The Representation of the People Act 1982 (No 13) (Cap 146)[98][99][100]

See also[]

  • Elections in the United Kingdom § History
  • List of short titles
  • Suffrage § United Kingdom
  • Universal suffrage § Dates by country

Notes[]

References[]

  1. ^ Alder and Syrett. Constitutional and Administrative Law. (Palgrave Law Masters). 11th Edition. 2017. p 294. Birch. The British System of Government. 10th Edition. Routledge. 1998. Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2006. p 17.
  2. ^ See, for example, the definition in section 8(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1884, read with the definition of the Registration Acts in section 8(2)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Julian Go (2007). "A Globalizing Constitutionalism?, Views from the Postcolony, 1945-2000". In Arjomand, Saïd Amir (ed.). Constitutionalism and political reconstruction. Brill. pp. 92–94. ISBN 978-9004151741.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "How the Westminster Parliamentary System was exported around the World". University of Cambridge. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. ^ West Indian Reports, Index Volume, Volumes 31 to 55, p 237
  6. ^ Dundas. Compendium of Election Laws, Practices and Cases of Selected Commonwealth Countries. Vol 1, Pt 2. 1998. p 1127.
  7. ^ Acts of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas for the Year 1975, pp 324 to 329
  8. ^ 8 Lawyer of the Americas 402
  9. ^ Acts of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, 1977
  10. ^ Acts of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas for the Year 1981
  11. ^ Acts of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas for the Year 1982
  12. ^ "Legislation" (1983) 6 West Indian Law Journal 193
  13. ^ (PDF) https://publicofficialsfinancialdisclosure.worldbank.org/sites/fdl/files/assets/law-library-files/Bangladesh_Representation%20of%20the%20People%20Order%20155_1972%20amended%202008_en.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ Laws of Barbados for Session 1875, & 1875-'76. p 33
  15. ^ Laws of Barbados for Session 1891-'92, Part 1, p 55
  16. ^ Laws of Barbados. By Authority. Revised and Consolidated by the Commissioners, Henry A Bovell and W Herbert Greaves. Printed by T E King & Co. Roebuck Street, Barbados. 1893. Volume 3. Pages 238 to 269.
  17. ^ Laws of Barbados for Session 1891-'92. Part 2. T E King & Co. Barbados. 1892. 1891 c 64.
  18. ^ "Legislation of the Empire, 1896" (1897) 2 Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation 238
  19. ^ Laws of Barbados, T E King, 1899, vol 4, p 438 and index
  20. ^ "Franchise" in "West Indies: Barbados" (1899) 1 Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation 561
  21. ^ Jump up to: a b c Emmanuel. General Elections in the Eastern Caribbean: A Handbook. 1979. p 188.
  22. ^ Laws of Barbados 1953
  23. ^ Annual Report on Barbados, p 55
  24. ^ 1 Barbados Law Reports 71 and 72
  25. ^ "Election Officers (Remuneration and Travelling Allowance) Regulations 1957", Subsidiary Legislation for the Year 1957 with Index, p 10.
  26. ^ 1 Barbados Law Reports xii, 71 and 72
  27. ^ Laws of Barbados 1957, p 246
  28. ^ "Representation of the People Act, 1957". Laws of Barbados 1957.
  29. ^ (1964) 4 Barbados Law Reports xii, 179 and 182
  30. ^ Peaslee, Constitutions of Nations, Revised 3rd Ed, Martinus Nijoff, 1970, vol 4, p 59
  31. ^ Re Harewood (1972) 20 West Indian Reports 28 and 29
  32. ^ Laing, "Election Statutes and the Concept of Nullity (1975) 4 Anglo-American Law Review 80, footnote 5
  33. ^ Yearbook on Human Rights for 1971, p 17
  34. ^ Emmanuel. Elections and Party Systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1944-1991. 1992. p 102.
  35. ^ British Honduras Gazette, 6 August 1960, p 406
  36. ^ "Representation of the People (Amendment) Ordinance" Ordinances of British Honduras passed in the Year 1953. p 317.
  37. ^ British Honduras Gazette, 25 July 1959, p 356
  38. ^ British Honduras: Report for the Years 1959-61. 1963. p 66
  39. ^ Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1960, p 37
  40. ^ British Honduras Gazette, 6 August 1960, p 410
  41. ^ The Constitution of Belize, 1981, p 49
  42. ^ Fernandez. Belize: Case Study for Democracy in Central America. 1989. p 73
  43. ^ Belize Gazette, 8 November 1991, pp 1021 to 1027
  44. ^ Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, 1997, p 317
  45. ^ "Statute Citator" (1979) 11 Review of Ghana Law 135
  46. ^ The Ghana Law Reports, Index 1971-1976, pp 196 & 422
  47. ^ Repealed by the Representation of the People Law, 1992
  48. ^ A Sourcebook of the Constitutional Law of Ghana.
  49. ^ (1969) 3 Annual Survey of African Law xxv
  50. ^ "Statutes" (1979) 11 Review of Ghana Law 138
  51. ^ "Representation of the People Law, 1992", Laws of the Provisional National Defense Council
  52. ^ [2013] Supreme Court of Ghana Law Reports 160 and 238 [1]
  53. ^ "Representation of the People (Amendment) Law, 1992". Laws of the Provisional National Defense Council
  54. ^ [2013] Supreme Court of Ghana Law Reports 238 [2]
  55. ^ Grenada: Consolidated Index of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation
  56. ^ "Legislation" (1998) 3 Caribbean Law Bulletin 225
  57. ^ British Guiana, Ordinances of the Year 1957
  58. ^ Yearbook on Human Rights for 1957. p 284
  59. ^ Report on British Guiana for the Year 1961. pp 167 & 168.
  60. ^ Ramcharan. The Guyana Court of Appeal. p 65.
  61. ^ Phillips. Freedom in the Caribbean: A Study in Constitutional Change. Oceana Publications. 1977. p 187
  62. ^ Brandt v Attorney General of Guyana (1971) 71 International Law Reports 450 at 479
  63. ^ James and Lutchman. Law and the Political Environment in Guyana. Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana. 1984. p xxiii.
  64. ^ "Legislation", Colonial Reports: Jamaica: 1950, p 73
  65. ^ The Laws of Jamaica passed in the Year 1955
  66. ^ Report on Jamaica for the Year 1955, p 271
  67. ^ Jamaica: Report for the year 1958, p 72
  68. ^ The Laws of Jamaica passed in the Year 1958
  69. ^ "Electoral Law ans Administration in Jamaica" (1969) Social and Economic Studies 17
  70. ^ Barnett. The Constitutional Law of Jamaica. 1977. pp 199 & 202
  71. ^ (1975) 7 Lawyer of the Americas 600
  72. ^ Annual Survey of Commonwealth Law 1966, pp xxxii and 92
  73. ^ Annual survey of Commonwealth Law 1966, pp  xxxii and 132
  74. ^ "Jamaica" in "Inter-American Legal Developments" (1973) 5 Lawyer of the Americas 73
  75. ^ Jamaica: Consolidated Index of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation to 1st January 1982, p 122
  76. ^ Emmanuel. Governance and Democracy in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An Introduction. 1993. p 116
  77. ^ 8 West Indian Law Journal 130
  78. ^ (1984) 8 West Indian Law Journal 234
  79. ^ Economic and Social Survey, Jamaica
  80. ^ (October 1996) 1 Caribbean Law Bulletin 148 and 166
  81. ^ (PDF) https://publicofficialsfinancialdisclosure.worldbank.org/sites/fdl/files/assets/law-library-files/Mauritius_Representation%20of%20the%20People%20Act_1958_en.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  82. ^ Mauritius: Report for the year 1957, p 169
  83. ^ Mauritius General Election 1967, p 9
  84. ^ Report on Mauritius 1960, p 77
  85. ^ Report on Mauritius 1961, p 78, see scan of reports for 1960 and 1961
  86. ^ Annual Survey of Commonwealth Law 1966, pp xxxii and 132
  87. ^ Mauritius: Report for the year 1966
  88. ^ (1968) 4 African Law Digest 177
  89. ^ (PDF) https://publicofficialsfinancialdisclosure.worldbank.org/sites/fdl/files/assets/law-library-files/Pakistan_Representation%20of%20the%20People%20Act_1976_en.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  90. ^ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Consolidated Index of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation, p 81
  91. ^ CARISPLAN Abstracts
  92. ^ Statutory Rules and Orders
  93. ^ SR & O 1991/23, 13 September 1991, Statutory Rules and Orders for the Year 1991, p 395: see scan of volumes of "Statutory Rules and Orders for the Year"
  94. ^ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Acts for the Year 1992, p 27
  95. ^ (October 1832) 56 Edinburgh Review 245
  96. ^ Such as the Representation of the People Act 1832: See Fatima, Using International Law in Domestic Courts, Hart Publishing, 2005, p 56; Wilding and Laundy, "Reform Act", An Encyclopaedia of Parliament, 3rd Edition, Frederick A Praeger, 1968, pp 622 & 623
  97. ^ "British Library". www.bl.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  98. ^ Ghai (ed). Law, Government, and Politics in the Pacific Island States. University of the South Pacific, Institute of Pacific Studies. 1988. p 61.
  99. ^ Premdas and Steeves. Politics and Government in Vanuatu. 1989. pp 108 & 179.
  100. ^ Republic of Vanuatu. 6th General Elections Report. 2 May 2002.

Further reading[]

  • Pilkington, Colin. "Representation of the People Act(s)". The Politics Today Companion To the British Constitution. Manchester University Press. 1999. Pages 133 and 134.
  • Briggs, Asa The Age of Improvement 1783-1867 (1959)
  • Woodward, Llewellan. The Age of Reform, 1815–1870 (2nd ed. 1961)
  • Johnston, Neil (2021-02-01). "The History of the Parliamentary Franchise". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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