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  Fixed Term Parliaments Bill - Clause 2 - Speaker's Certificate re Early General Election to be Issued Within 24 Hours
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require a certificate from the Speaker relating to an early general election be issued within 24 hours of the conditions requiring the holding of such an early election being met. 
  @ MP voted no against requiring  certificate from the Speaker relating to an early general election be issued within 24 hours of the conditions requiring the holding of such an early election being met. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring a certificate from the Speaker relating to an early general election be issued within 24 hours of the conditions requiring the holding of such an early election being met. 
  
  
  MPs were considering the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was[2]:
  
  :Amendment 23, in clause 2, page 2, line 17, at end insert
  :'(4A) The Speaker shall issue a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) within 24 hours of the relevant conditions being met under subsection (1) or (2).'.
  
  
  This amendment would have introduced a new subclause into clause two of the Bill as it stood[3]. The certificate in question is one relating to the calling of an early general election in light of one of the criteria in the clause requiring an election being met. Those criteria being the passing of a motion in favour of an early parliamentary general election, either without objection, or with a two-thirds majority, or a vote of no-confidence in the Government having been passed, and no subsequent vote of confidence being obtained within 14 days. 
  
  
  
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/fixedtermparliaments.html Fixed Term Parliaments Bill (now an act) page on Parliament's website] 
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/064/amend/pbc0640112m.1233-1239.html Amendment sheet for consideration of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill on 1 December 2010]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/064/11064.1-7.html#Extraordinary%20elections%20reset%20version Clause 2 of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill at the time of the vote]
  
  
  
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