The purpose of the Bill is to:
give the British people a voice and a real choice on Europe
enable a referendum to allow the electorate to have an in-out vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017
The main benefits of the Bill would be:
to allow the electorate to have an in-out vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017
The main elements of the Bill are:
that it would enable a referendum to allow the electorate to have an in-out vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017
that it will make clear that the franchise for the Referendum will be based on the General Election franchise, plus members of the House of Lords and Commonwealth citizens in Gibraltar. British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens over 18 who are resident in the UK will therefore be eligible to vote as well as UK nationals resident overseas for less than 15 years