Writ - Writ of Supersedeas to the Returning Officer of the Manchester Gorton Constituency [2017-04-20]

Writ - Writ of Supersedeas to the Returning Officer of the Manchester Gorton Constituency [2017-04-20]

General Elections

House of Commons

Writ addressed to the Returning Officer of the Manchester Gorton Constituency ordering them to proceed no further in respect of the writ for an election issued on March 28, 2017.

John Bercow (Speaker of the House of Commons)

2017-04-20

T. Onslow

Order of the House of Commons authorizing Mr. Speaker to issue a Writ of Supersedeas.

Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To the Returning Officer for the Manchester Gorton Constituency GREETING We COMMAND you that you do proceed no further in respect of Our writ made on the twenty-eighth day of March in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and seventeen by which we commanded that you cause election to be made according to law of a Member to serve in Parliament for the said Manchester Gorton Constituency in the place of Gerald Bernard Kaufman deceased Witness Ourself at Westminster the twentieth day of April in the sixty-sixth year of Our Reign and in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and seventeen

HEATON

To the Returning Officer for the Manchester Gorton Constituency
A writ of supersedeas in respect of a writ of 28^th March 2017

HEATON

Crown Office in Chancery, Palace of Westminster

This writ cancelled the byelection that was due to be held following Gerald Kaufman's death on February 26, 2017. It was necessary because Parliament was going to be dissolved on May 3 for an early General Election under section 2(2) of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011.