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  Fixed Term Parliaments Bill - New Clause 4 - Power of the Monarch to Decide When Parliament Meets
  
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  @ MP voted no in favour of continuing to let the monarch determine when Parliament meets rather than allowing MPs themselves, or the Speaker of the House of Commons, to decide. 
  @ MP voted aye against continuing to let the monarch determine when Parliament meets and to allow MPs themselves, or the Speaker of the House of Commons, to decide instead. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of continuing to let the monarch determine when Parliament meets rather than allowing MPs themselves, or the Speaker of the House of Commons, to decide. 
  
  MPs were considering the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill[1].  The text of the proposed new clause rejected in this vote was:
  
  :'(1) Parliament can only be prorogued in accordance with this section.
  :(2) If the House of Commons resolves that Parliament should be prorogued, Parliament shall be prorogued at that time, or by declaration of the Speaker.
  :(3) The Speaker of the House of Commons shall not make such a declaration unless the House of Commons has passed a resolution directing him to do so on or before a specified date and time.
  :(4) Where Parliament is prorogued under subsection (2) above, the Speaker may by declaration prorogue it to an earlier or later day.
  :(5) The [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/30-31/81/contents Prorogation Act 1867] is repealed.'
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/fixedtermparliaments.html Fixed Term Parliament's Bill (now an act) page on Parliament's website] 
  
  
  
  
  
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