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Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918

Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, 1918[1]
Long titleAn Act to amend the Law with respect to the Capacity of Women to sit in Parliament.
Citation8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 47
Introduced byLord Robert Cecil
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent21 November 1918
Commencement21 November 1918
Other legislation
Repealed byStatute Law Revision Act 1983 (RoI)
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament.

At 41 words, it is the shortest UK statute.[2]

  1. ^ Short title as conferred by s. 2 of the Act; the modern convention for the citation of short titles omits the comma after the word "Act"
  2. ^ "Oldest surviving judicial code". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 28 September 2017. The shortest statute is the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918, which runs to 27 operative words: 'A woman shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from being elected to or sitting or voting as a Member of the Commons House of Parliament.' Section 2 contains a further 14 words giving the short title.

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