The Act 6 Hen. 8 (repealed 5.11.1993)
Act repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 (c. 50), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI Group2
1514 c. 16

Knights, Citizens, or Burgesses shall not depart from Parliament until the Session be ended, without Licence of the Speaker; on Forfeiture of their Wages.
For so moche as comenly in the end of every parliament dyvers & many grete & weyghty maters, aswell touchyng the pleasure wele and suertie of oure Soveraigne Lord the Kyng as the common wele of this his Realme and subjetts ar to be treatyd comynyd of and by auctorite of parliament to be concluded, So ytt ys that dyvers Knyghtis of Shires Citizens for cities burgyses for boroughes & barons of the Synk ports long tyme before the end of the seid parliament of their owne auctoritees depart & goeth home into their Countrees, Wherby the seid grett & weighty maters ar many tymes gretly delayed, In consyderacyon wherof be ytt enactyd by the Kyng our Soveraigne Lord the Lords; spirituall & temporall and the Commons inn this present parliament assembled and by auctoryte of the same, that from hensforth none of the seid Knyghtis Cytizens burgyses & barons nor any of them that hereafter shalbe electyd to comme or be in any parliament do nott depart frome the same parliament nor absent hym selff frome the same tyll the same parliament be fully fynysshid endyd or Prorogyd, except he or they so departyng have lycens of the Speker and Commyns in the same parliament assembled, And the same licens be enteryd of record in the booke of the Clerke of the parliament appoynted or to be appoynted for the Common house; upon payn to every of them so departyng or absentyng them self in any other maner to loose all thos sommes of Money whiche he or they shuld or ought to have hadd for his or their Wages, . . . . . .
Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 1