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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

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Pension Schemes Act

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A Bill to make provision about pension schemes, including provision designed to encourage arrangements that offer people different levels of certainty in retirement or that involve different ways of sharing or pooling risk and provision designed to give people greater flexibility in accessing benefits and to help them make informed decisions about what to…

Presented by Mr Iain Duncan Smith.
51% Aye · 49% No · 528 votes

Infrastructure Act 2015

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A Bill to make provision for strategic highways companies and the funding of transport services by land; to make provision for the control of invasive non-native species; to make provision about nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the Homes and Communities Agency and Ma…

Presented by Baroness Kramer.
51% Aye · 49% No · 563 votes

Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015

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A Bill To make provision in relation to terrorism; to make provision about retention of communications data, about information, authority to carry and security in relation to air, sea and rail transport and about reviews by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission against refusals to issue certificates of naturalisation; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Mrs Theresa May.
51% Aye · 49% No · 521 votes

National Insurance Contributions Act 2015

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

Presented by Mr George Osborne.
51% Aye · 49% No · 516 votes

Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015

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A Bill to make provision as to matters to which a court must have regard in determining a claim in negligence or breach of statutory duty.

Presented by Chris Grayling.
51% Aye · 49% No · 498 votes

Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

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To make provision about how offenders are dealt with before and after conviction; to amend the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images; to make provision about the proceedings and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Chris Grayling.
51% Aye · 49% No · 524 votes

Stamp Duty Land Tax Act 2015

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A Bill to make provision about stamp duty land tax on residential property transactions; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Mr David Gauke.
51% Aye · 49% No · 523 votes

Wales Act 2014

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To make provision about elections to and membership of the National Assembly for Wales; to make provision about the Welsh Assembly Government; to make provision about the setting by the Assembly of a rate of income tax to be paid by Welsh taxpayers and about the devolution of taxation powers to the Assembly; to make related amendments to Part 4A of the Sc…

Presented by Mr David Jones.
51% Aye · 49% No · 497 votes

Taxation of Pensions Act 2014

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A Bill to make provision in connection with the taxation of pensions.

Presented by Mr George Osborne.
51% Aye · 49% No · 490 votes

Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014

[As Introduced]
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To Make provision, in consequence of a declaration of invalidity made by the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to Directive 2006/24/EC, about the retention of certain communications data; to amend the grounds for issuing interception warrants, or granting or giving certain authorisations or notices, under Part 1 of the Regulation of Inves…

Presented by Mrs Theresa May.
51% Aye · 49% No · 462 votes

Finance Act 2014

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A Bill To grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating tothe National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision inconnection with finance.

Presented by Mr David Gauke.
51% Aye · 49% No · 515 votes

Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2014

[As Introduced]
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To authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2015; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2014.

Presented by Mr David Gauke.
51% Aye · 49% No · 541 votes

House of Lords Reform Act

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A Bill to make provision for retirement from the House of Lords; and to make provision for the expulsion of Members of the House of Lords in specified circumstances.

Presented by Dan Byles.
51% Aye · 49% No · 548 votes

Defence Reform Act

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To make provision in connection with any arrangements that may be made by the Secretary of State with respect to the provision to the Secretary of State of defence procurement services; to make provision relating to defence procurement contracts awarded, or amended, otherwise than as the result of a competitive process; to make provision in relation to th…

Presented by Mr Philip Hammond.
51% Aye · 49% No · 538 votes

Water Act

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To make provision about the water industry; about compensation for modification of licences to abstract water; about main river maps; about records of waterworks; for the regulation of the water environment; about the provision of flood insurance for household premises; about internal drainage boards; about Regional Flood and Coastal Committees; and for c…

Presented by Mr Owen Paterson.
51% Aye · 49% No · 547 votes

Care Act

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A Bill to reform the law relating to care and support for adults and the law relating to support for carers, to make provision about safeguarding adults from abuse or neglect, to make provision about care standards, to establish and make provision about Health Education England, to establish and make provision about the Health Research Authority, and for…

Presented by Earl Howe.
52% Aye · 48% No · 505 votes

Offender Rehabilitation Act

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A Bill to make provision about the release, and supervision after release, of offenders, to make provision about the extension period for extended sentence prisoners, to make provision about community orders and suspended sentence orders, and for connected purposes.

Presented by Lord McNally.
52% Aye · 48% No · 570 votes

Pensions Act

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A Bill to make provision about pensions and about benefits payable to people in connection with bereavement; and for connected purposes.

Presented by Mr Iain Duncan Smith.
51% Aye · 49% No · 491 votes

Intellectual Property Act

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A Bill to make provision about intellectual property.

Presented by Viscount Younger of Leckie.
51% Aye · 49% No · 552 votes

Deep Sea Mining Act

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Third reading - the final chance for the Lords to change the Bill - took place on 18 March and no amendments were made. As both Houses have agreed on the text of the Bill it now waits for the final stage of Royal Assent when the Bill will become an Act of Parliament. A date for Royal Assent has yet to be set.

Presented by Sheryll Murray.
51% Aye · 49% No · 546 votes