The Boundary Commission published its initial proposals following an act of parliament earlier in the year.
An Act of Parliament was needed so that the Cob could be built.
The ferries are protected by a Royal Charter and it would need an act of parliament to end the service.
But to make the change requires an act of parliament and that is going to take at least three years.
Lord Neill would prefer the code to be enshrined in an act of Parliament to give civil servants more protection.
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This would not require an Act of Parliament but there would need to be a debate in both Houses of Parliament.
By the 1920s the canals were no longer being used, and in 1939 Droitwich Council applied for an Act of Parliament to abandon them.
He believed an act of parliament could overcome the legal restrictions which the British Museum cites as preventing it from disposing of the sculptures.
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The Downs was originally owned by the Society of Merchant Venturers, but was given to the public and protected by an Act of Parliament in 1861.
By 1727 Handel was so well entrenched in London that, as George Frideric Handel, he became a naturalised British citizen (which required an act of Parliament).
An act of Parliament was needed for the compulsory purchase orders for the 800 acres and the legislation was pushed through even though no Welsh MP voted for it.
Mr Jeuda, who has written books on the history of the North Staffordshire Railway, said the building of the tunnel was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1846.
Zopa's business as a lending and borrowing exchange is quite new and does not fall under any of the existing regulatory categories, and as a result the FSA would need an act of parliament to create a new one.
The need for an act of Parliament prevented the axe falling immediately, so it wasn't a case of "don't bother coming in tomorrow", but after 10 truly depressing months watching friends and colleagues leave the building for good, I took voluntary redundancy the following March.
Lord McCluskey said: "I find it deeply offensive that we have an act of parliament, a devolution act, which says the apex court in Belfast decides these questions and the apex court in London decides these questions but we can't trust the Scottish judges to do it".
If it is passed then Royal Assent is given and the bill becomes an Act of the Scottish Parliament.
It argues that the 1949 Parliament Act is unlawful too, because it was rammed through the Lords using an earlier version of itself, the 1911 Parliament Act.
In 1534, England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church -- a role formerly held by the Pope.
The lecture came as part of Parliament Week, which is an initiative to try to connect the public with their legislature during the centenary year of the 1911 Parliament Act - the basis of the relationship between the Lords and the Commons.
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In Belgrade, the Yugoslav parliament cut short its session in protest at the terrorist attack, which it described as an act of terrorism aimed at destabilising the area.
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