shall be expelled this House." The prohibition was strengthened over the following decades to bar MPs from simultaneously holding certain offices. Since anyone receiving a salary from the Crown could not be truly independent, the House of Commons passed a resolution on 30 December 1680 stating that an MP who "shall accept any Office, or Place of Profit, from the Crown, without the Leave of this House.
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Originally, the disqualification of office holders from Parliament came about as part of the long struggle to ensure that Parliament would remain free from undue influence on the part of the monarch. An MP could not effectively tend to personal business at home while he was away at Parliament, yet MPs were unpaid until 1911. Members had to travel to Westminster over a primitive road system, a real problem for those who represented more distant constituencies. that a man, after he is duly chosen, cannot relinquish." At the time, serving in Parliament was considered an obligation to be borne rather than a position of power and honour. On 2 March 1624 N.S., Parliament formalized the prohibition by passing a resolution ". Resignation from the House of Commons has never been allowed in theory, although five MPs were allowed to resign in the early 17th century on grounds of ill health. The former office-holder may subsequently be reelected to Parliament. When more than two MPs resign at a time-for example, when 15 Ulster Unionist MPs resigned in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement on 17 December 1985-the resignations are, in theory, not simultaneous but spread throughout the day, enabling each member to hold one of the offices for a short time. The offices are used alternately, making it possible for two members to resign at the same time. The stewardships have been maintained as nominal offices of profit solely as a legal fiction to meet the requirements of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and its predecessors. The main property of the Manor of Northstead was described in 1600 as "unfit for habitation" after "it fell down". The Chiltern Hundreds last required an actual Steward in the 16th century. The stewardships are unpaid positions that provide no benefits and carry no responsibilities. Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham.Historically, all "offices of profit under the Crown" could be used for this purpose. Members of Parliament (MPs) wishing to give up their seats before the next general election are appointed to an office which causes the MP to be disqualified from membership. It is rare for an MP to be nominated to a legitimate office of profit no MPs lost their seat by being appointed to an actual office between 1981, when Thomas Williams became a judge, and 2022, when Rosie Cooper became the chair of an NHS foundation trust (though she was also appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds the same day). For this purpose, a legal fiction has been maintained where two unpaid sinecures are considered to be offices of profit: Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.Īlthough since the passage of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, general "offices for profit" are no longer disqualifying, the explicit lists of hundreds of offices that are disqualifying now contains these two stewardships so this tradition can be continued. To circumvent this prohibition, MPs who wish to step down are instead appointed to an " office of profit under the Crown" by law, such an appointment disqualifies them from sitting in Parliament. As a constitutional convention, Members of Parliament (MPs) sitting in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom are not formally permitted to resign their seats.
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