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  European Union Referendum Bill - Clause 1 - Separation of Referendum on the UK's Membership of the EU from Other Elections
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require the date of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU not be within three months of the 5th of May.
  @ MP voted no against requiring the date of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU to not be within three months of the 5th of May.
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring the date of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU to not be within three months of the 5th of May.
  
  MPs were considering the European Union Referendum Bill.[1]
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment proposed: 5, page 1, line 9, at end insert
  :âor a date within three months before or after May 5.
  
  The amendment was accompanied by an explanatory statement saying:
  
  :This would ensure the referendum vote could not be held on a day three months before or after the date of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elections.
  
  Had it not been rejected the amendment would have affected Clause 1 of the Bill[2] which stated
  
  : (2) The Secretary of State must, by regulations, appoint the day on which the
  referendum is to be held.
  :(3) The day appointed under subsection (2)â
  :(a) must be no later than 31 December 2017, and
  :(b) must not be 5 May 2016.
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/europeanunionreferendum/documents.html Parliament's webpage on the European Union Referendum Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0006/cbill_2015-20160006_en_2.htm#pb1-l1g12 Version of Clause 1 of the Bill to which the rejected amendment relates]
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