Section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999 (exception from section 1) is amended
as follows.
A
bill
to
Amend the House of Lords Act 1999 so as to abolish the system of by-elections for hereditary peers.
B e it enacted by the King’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:—
Section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999 (exception from section 1) is amended
as follows.
“(2)No more than 90 people at any one time shall be excepted from section
1.”
“(4)Any vacancy resulting from the death, retirement, resignation or
expulsion of an excepted person under subsection (2) after the day on
which the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections)
Act 2022 comes into force is not to be filled by further exception.”
This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
This Act may be cited as the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition
of By-Elections) Act 2022.
A
bill
to
Amend the House of Lords Act 1999 so as to abolish the system of by-elections for hereditary peers.
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