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House of Lords Act 1999

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 24 Cited in Amendments 21 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1999 c. 34
  • No-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
    • (1) Section 1 shall not apply in relation to anyone excepted from it by or in accordance with Standing Orders of the House.(2) At any one time 90 people shall be excepted from section 1; but anyone excepted as holder of the office of Earl Marshal, or as performing the office of Lord Great Chamberlain, shall not count towards that limit.(3) Once excepted from section 1, a person shall continue to be so throughout his life (until an Act of Parliament provides to the contrary) .the vacancy arises on a death occurring after the end of the first Session of the next Parliament after that in which this Act is passed, andthe deceased person was excepted in consequence of an election,(5) A person may be excepted from section 1 by or in accordance with Standing Orders made in anticipation of the enactment or commencement of this section.(6) Any question whether a person is excepted from section 1 shall be decided by the Clerk of the Parliaments, whose certificate shall be conclusive.voting at elections to the House of Commons, orbeing, or being elected as, a member of that House.(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to anyone excepted from section 1 by virtue of section 2.(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 are amended as specified there.(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 are repealed to the extent specified there.(1) Sections 1 to 4 (including Schedules 1 and 2) shall come into force at the end of the Session of Parliament in which this Act is passed.(2) Accordingly, any writ of summons issued for the present Parliament in right of a hereditary peerage shall not have effect after that Session unless it has been issued to a person who, at the end of the Session, is excepted from section 1 by virtue of section 2.(3) The Secretary of State may by order make such transitional provision about the entitlement of holders of hereditary peerages to vote at elections to the House of Commons or the European Parliament as he considers appropriate.may modify the

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