Representative Peers (Ireland) Act 1857
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(20 & 21 Vict.) C A P. XXXIII.
[10th August 1857]
'WHEREAS by in Act passed by the Parliament ofIreland in the Fortieth Year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled Ireland,shall be summoned and returned to the said Parliament , certain Provisions were made for regulating the Proceedings in relation to the Elections of Representative Peers for Ireland , and it is expedient to amend the same:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I As to Issue of Writs in future on Occasion of Seat of a Temporal Peer of Ireland being vacated.
I. On any Seat of the Twenty-eight Lords Temporal being hereafter vacated, the Writ to be issued, according to the Provisions of the said Act of the Parliament ofIreland , under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to the Chancellor, Keeper, or Commissioners of the Great Seal of Ireland , shall direct him or them to cause Writs to be issued by the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland to the Peers entitled to receive the same according to the Provisions of the said Act, and also to every Peer in respect to whose Right to vote at the Election of Representative Peers the House of Lords shall have directed a Certificate to be sent to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland , stating that the Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom had reported to the House that the Right of such Peer to vote had been established to his Satisfaction, and that the House had ordered such Report to be sent to the said Clerk of the Crown inIreland ; and all the Provisions of the said Act applicable to Temporal Peers receiving Writs under the same, and to the Writs issued to such Peers, shall be held to apply to Temporal Peers receiving Writs, and to the Writs issued under this Act.
II As to Returns to such Writs.
II. Any Peer ofIreland who shall have taken and subscribed in the House of Lords the Oaths which are or shall be by Law required to be taken and subscribed by the Lords of the United Kingdom before they can sit and vote in the...
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