The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

The Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a motion in 1999 calling for the complete removal of any discrimination linked to the monarchy and the repeal of the Act of Settlement.

In England a number of statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of the Parliament of 1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of 1872 and 1873.

Near the start of the English Civil War, on 18 August 1643 Parliament passed " An Ordinance for Explanation of a former Ordinance for Sequestration of Delinquents Estates with some Enlargements.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

The Savoy Conference ended in disagreement late in July 1661, but the initiative in prayerbook revision had already passed to the Convocations and from there to Parliament.

An Act of Parliament passed in the year 1563, entitled “ An Act for the Translating of the Bible and the Divine Service into the Welsh Tongue ,” ordered that the Old and New Testament, together with the Book of Common Prayer, were to be translated into Welsh.

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act of 1858 to this effect, which set up the structure of British government in India.

Charles II of England was concerned by the unregulated copying of books and passed the Licensing of the Press Act 1662 by Act of Parliament, which established a register of licensed books and required a copy to be deposited with the Stationers ' Company, essentially continuing the licensing of material that had long been in effect.

In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

The then Prime Minister Tony Blair even passed comment on Deirdre's sentencing in Parliament.

Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic.

Now ( from 10 December 2007 ), in order of Italian legislation system, the law is before the House and has to be passed also by the Camera dei Deputati, the second house of Italian Parliament, to become an effective law.

In 1844 the British Parliament passed the Joint Stock Companies Act, which allowed companies to incorporate without a royal charter or an Act of Parliament.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

In 1700 an Act of Parliament was passed to prevent the importation of dyed or printed calicoes from India, China or Persia.

On 17 October 2006, the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the rule against double jeopardy in cases where:

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

On 14 November, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a resolution to establish a neutral commission to investigate the incidents of June 8 and November 1 and 2.

On 14 November, the Ethiopian Parliament passed a resolution to establish a neutral commission to investigate the incidents of June 8 and November 1 and 2.

With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

However, at the same time the Parliament and Commission had been strengthened inside the Community pillar curbing the ability of the Council to act independently.

The primary purpose of the Council is to act as one of the two chambers of the EU's legislative branch, the other chamber being the European Parliament.

At its second reading, if the Parliament approves the text or does not act, the text is adopted, otherwise the Parliament may propose further amendments to the Council's proposal.

Convention dictates, that the governor must draw from the Parliament an individual to act as Premier, who is also capable of forming government — in almost all cases the Member of Parliament who commands the confidence of the Legislative Assembly.

In January 1606, during the first sitting of Parliament since the plot, the Observance of 5th November Act 1605 was passed, making services and sermons commemorating the event an annual feature of English life ; the act remained in force until 1859.

With accommodations to the Catholic Centre Party, Hitler succeeded in convincing a required two-thirds of a rigged Parliament to pass the Enabling act of 1933 which gave his government full legislative power.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) notes that the hogshead was first standardized by an act of Parliament in 1423, though the standards continued to vary by locality and content.

It is the only language in Poland with this status, which was granted by an act of the Polish Parliament on January 6, 2005.

Parliament approved “ An Act to enable His Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign Protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and regulations .” Earl of Loudoun, who as commander-in-chief of the forces in North America, was appointed colonel-in-chief of the regiment.

Therefore the restoration of King Charles II could not be an act of the Long Parliament acting freely under its own authority, but only under the influence of the sword by Col. Monk, who traded his loyalties for the present Long Parliament, in preference to a reformed Long Parliament and to the restoration of King Charles II.

Edmond Ludlow one of the members of Parliament excepted by the act of indemnity, fled to Switzerland after the restoration of King Charles II, where he wrote his memoirs of these events.

The Parliament of Ireland passed an act in 1715 raising regiments of militia in each county and county corporate.

* Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, a UK act of Parliament

The Statute of Anne ( c. 19 ), an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, was the first statute to provide for copyright regulated by the government and courts, rather than by private parties.

Nevertheless this act did not remove the ability of the British Parliament to legislate regarding the New Zealand Constitution.

* Montreal, Quebec, was merged with the other 27 communities on the Island of Montreal by an act in the Quebec Parliament in 2002.