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  Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Clause 1 - Referendum on the alternative vote system
  
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  @ MP voted no to allow the referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for electing MPs to be held on the same day as elections to the Welsh Assembly or Scottish Parliament.   
  @ MP voted aye against allowing the referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for electing MPs to be held on the same day as elections to the Welsh Assembly or Scottish Parliament.  
  
  The majority of MPs voted to allow the referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for electing MPs to be held on the same day as elections to the Welsh Assembly or Scottish Parliament. The proposal, which was voted down, would have left to the Electoral Commission to set the date of the referendum subject to avoiding the clash and holding the referendum within 18 months of the act becoming law. 
  
  The proposed amendment which was the subject of this vote would have left out line 6 in the original bill[1] which stated:
  
  :The referendum must be held on 5 May 2011.
  
  The rejected proposal was to replace that specific date with the following arrangement:
  
  :'(2) (a) The Electoral Commission shall within two months of Royal Assent to this Act specify
  
  the date on which the referendum is to be held.
  
  (b) The specified date must be-
  
  (i) within 18 months of the date of Royal Assent to this Act, and
  
  (ii) a date on which no other election to a parliament or assembly in the United Kingdom is to be held.
  
  (c) The Minister must lay before Parliament the draft of an Order in Council to give effect to the specified date.
  
  (d) The draft of the Order in Council under paragraph (c) above shall not be laid before Parliament until the specified date has been agreed by the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the National Assembly for Wales.'.
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/063/11063.i-ii.html Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill as introduced on the 22nd of July 2010]
  
  
  
  
  
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