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Bills that have received Royal Assent. The Acts that govern the country, ordered by most recent.

695 Acts on the statute book

201-220 of 695 · page 11 of 35

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision relating to the carrying of disabled persons by taxis and private hire vehicles.

Presented by Jeremy Wright.
52% Aye · 48% No · 548 votes

Cultural Objects (Protection from Seizure) Act 2022

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A Bill to extend the protection from seizure or forfeiture given to cultural objects.

Presented by Mel Stride.
52% Aye · 48% No · 524 votes

Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision for and in connection with the establishment of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

Presented by Kwasi Kwarteng.
51% Aye · 49% No · 542 votes

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision about licensing in relation to taxis and private hire vehicles for purposes relating to the safeguarding of passengers and road safety; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Peter Gibson.
51% Aye · 49% No · 540 votes

Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision for the implementation of a regulated asset base model for nuclear energy generation projects; for revenue collection for the purposes of that model; for a special administration regime for licensees subject to that model; and about the circumstances in which bodies corporate are not associated with site operators for the purposes…

Presented by Greg Hands.
50% Aye · 50% No · 529 votesParliament: 458-53

Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Act 2022

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A Bill to extend the duty to provide careers guidance in schools.

Presented by Mark Jenkinson.
52% Aye · 48% No · 483 votes

Highgate Cemetery Act

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A Bill to confer powers upon the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust to operate, maintain and improve Highgate Cemetery and to extinguish rights of burial and disturb human remains in Highgate Cemetery for the purpose of increasing the space for interments and the improvement of Highgate Cemetery; and for connected purposes.

51% Aye · 49% No · 532 votes

Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022

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A Bill to Set up a register of overseas entities and their beneficial owners and require overseas entities who own land to register in certain circumstances; to make provision about unexplained wealth orders; and to make provision about sanctions.

Presented by Priti Patel.
51% Aye · 49% No · 550 votes

Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2022

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A Bill To Authorise the use of resources for the years ending with 31 March 2021, 31 March 2022 and 31 March 2023; to authorise the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund for those years; and to appropriate the supply authorised by this Act for the years ending with 31 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.

Presented by Mr Simon Clarke.
50% Aye · 50% No · 552 votes

Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision about public service pension schemes, including retrospective provision to rectify unlawful discrimination in the way in which existing schemes were restricted under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and corresponding Northern Ireland legislation; to make provision for the establishment of new public pension schemes for members…

Presented by Viscount Younger of Leckie.
51% Aye · 49% No · 487 votes

Dormant Assets Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision for and in connection with an expanded dormant assets scheme; to confer power to further expand the scope of that scheme; to amend the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008; to enable an authorised reclaim fund to accept transfers of certain unwanted assets; and for connected purposes

Presented by Baroness Barran.
53% Aye · 47% No · 482 votes

Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision about Ministerial appointments, extraordinary Assembly elections, the Ministerial Code of Conduct and petitions of concern in Northern Ireland.

Presented by Brandon Lewis.
51% Aye · 49% No · 530 votes

Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022

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A Bill to make provision about the rent payable under long leases of dwellings; and for connected purposes

Presented by Lord Greenhalgh.
52% Aye · 48% No · 532 votes

National Insurance Contributions Act 2014

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To make provision in relation to national insurance contributions; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Mr George Osborne.
52% Aye · 48% No · 533 votes

Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016

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A Bill to make provision about reports on progress towards full employment and the apprenticeships target; to make provision about reports on the effect of certain support for troubled families; to make provision about life chances; to make provision about the benefit cap; to make provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision for loan…

Presented by Mr Iain Duncan Smith.
52% Aye · 48% No · 533 votes

Vehicle Registration Marks Act 2007

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To make further provision about the retention of vehicle registration marks pending transfer.

Presented by Richard Ottaway.
51% Aye · 49% No · 495 votes

Armed Forces Act 2021

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A Bill to continue the Armed Forces Act 2006; to amend that Act and other enactments relating to the armed forces; to make provision about service in the reserve forces; to make provision about pardons for certain abolished service offences; to make provision about war pensions; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Mr Ben Wallace.
54% Aye · 46% No · 496 votes

Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021

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A Bill to make provision about matters attributable to coronavirus that may not be taken account of in making certain determinations for the purposes of non-domestic rating; and to make provision in connection with the disqualification of directors of companies that are dissolved without becoming insolvent.

Presented by Lord Greenhalgh.
50% Aye · 50% No · 518 votes

Critical Benchmarks (References and Administrators’ Liability) Act 2021

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A Bill to make provision about the meaning of references to Article 23A benchmarks in contracts and other arrangements; and to make provision about the liability of administrators of Article 23A benchmarks

Presented by Lord Agnew of Oulton.
51% Aye · 49% No · 517 votes

Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2021

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A Bill to make provision relating to the up-rating of certain social security benefits payable in the tax year 2022-23.

Presented by Dr Thérèse Coffey.
51% Aye · 49% No · 540 votes