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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
An Act for the frequent Meeting and calling of Parliaments.
X1Whereas by the ancient Laws and Statutes of this Kingdome frequent Parliaments ought to bee held And whereas frequent and new Parliaments tend very much to the happy union and good agreement of the King and People.
C1Short title given by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 2
X1Abbreviations or contractions in the original form of this Act have been expanded into modern lettering in the text set out below.
From henceforth a Parliament shall bee holden once in Three years att the least.
And within Three yeares att the farthest from and after the Dissolution of this present Parliament and soe from time to time for ever hereafter within Three yeares att the farthest from and after the determination of every other Parliament legal Writts under the Great Seal shall bee issued by directions of your Majesties your Heires and Successors for calling assembling and holding another new Parliament.
Meeting of Parliament Act 1694