Irish Legislation Database : Display Record

Bill Number	2170	Session	1761
Title	For limiting the duration of parliaments.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Commons
Leave or Order		22 Oct 1761	Leave or Order to	Dr Lucas	[1276]
Read & Committed		28 Oct 1761	Presented by	Dr Lucas	[1276]
Reported		9 Dec 1761	Reported by	Mr Gorges Lowther	[1273]
Sent to Chief Governor		9 Dec 1761
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		27 Feb 1762
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Rejected
Engrossed		—
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented
Presented		—
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
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Privy Council Notes: Apparently not mentioned in EPC register after referral to attorney general. Extant Copies: ESTCT10154 The speech of a young Member of Parliament, on the debate of the Septennial Bill. Dublin : printed in the year, 1761. 16p. ; 8°. Copy in ECCO. Subject: [110] Government - Legislature - Parliamentary elections Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Division; Special Presentation of Heads Comments on Procedural Features: Divisions: 3, 9 Dec. 1761. (HC rejected motion for Special Presentation of Heads.)