Editing Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 (section)

====Section 7: Duration of Parliament====
This section amended the [[Septennial Act 1715]], reducing the maximum duration of any parliament from seven years to five.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/13/section/7 |title=Parliament Act 1911 |work=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=12 September 2011}}</ref>

The President of the Board of Education, [[Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford|Walter Runciman]], said:

{{Blockquote|The period of five years is chosen with the deliberate object of striking a compromise between, the old triennial Parliament advocated in [[Chartism|Chartist]] days and the seven years' Parliament. Our object in limiting the period to five years is that there may be no risk run of the perils which have been enunciated with great vigour by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite of a Government taking advantage of the powers granted to it under the second Resolution, outliving its welcome, getting completely out of touch with the country, and using its extended period of life, say of six years, for carrying through legislation of which the country does not approve. The five years named in the Resolution will in almost every case mean a four years' Parliament. It means therefore that if a Parliament divided its time in the manner described by the Leader of the Opposition, in the first two years doing the work for which it was returned, and in the second two years looking forward to the election about to come upon it, it would have filled up the whole of the four years' period for which this Resolution provides. Our only object in limiting the period of the duration of Parliament is that the House of Commons shall not get out of touch with the opinion of the electorate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1910/apr/14/duration-of-pahliament |title=DURATION OF PAHLIAMENT. (Hansard, 14 April 1910) |work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |date=14 April 1910 |access-date=12 September 2011}}</ref>}}

This section was repealed by the [[Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011]]<ref>The [[Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011]], section 6(3) and Schedule, paragraph 4</ref> for the United Kingdom<ref>The [[Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011]], section 7(3)</ref> on 15 September 2011,<ref>The [[Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011]], section 7(2)</ref> when parliament was given a [[Fixed-term election|fixed]] five-year term.