House of Lords Act 1999
No-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
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Section 1 shall not apply in relation to anyone excepted from it by or in accordance with Standing Orders of the House.
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.
Once excepted from section 1, a person shall continue to be so throughout his life (until an Act of Parliament provides to the contrary).
Standing Orders shall make provision for filling vacancies among the people excepted from section 1; and in any case where— that provision shall require the holding of a by-election.
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, and
the deceased person was excepted in consequence of an election,
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.
Any question whether a person is excepted from section 1 shall be decided by the Clerk of the Parliaments, whose certificate shall be conclusive.
The holder of a hereditary peerage shall not be disqualified by virtue of that peerage for—
voting at elections to the House of Commons, or
being, or being elected as, a member of that House.
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The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 are amended as specified there.
The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 are repealed to the extent specified there.
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.
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.
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.
An order under this section—
may modify the effect of any enactment or any provision made under an enactment, and
shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
In this Act “hereditary peerage” includes the principality of Wales and the earldom of Chester.
This Act may be cited as the House of Lords Act 1999.
Section 4(1).
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In section 1 of the Recess Elections Act 1975 (issue of warrants for making out writs to replace members of the House of Commons whose seats have become vacant), in— for the words “become a peer” there shall be substituted the words “ become disqualified as a peer for membership of the House of Commons ”.
subsection (1)(a), and
paragraph (a) of the definition of “certificate of vacancy” in subsection (2),
In Schedule 1 to that Act (certificate of vacancy), for the words “has become a peer of Parliament” there shall be substituted the words “ has become disqualified as a peer for membership of the House of Commons ”.
Section 4(2). Chapter Short title Extent of repeal 1963 c. 48. The Peerage Act 1963. In section 1(3), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it. Section 2. In section 3, in subsection (1)(b), the words from “(including” to “that House)” and, in subsection (2), the words from “and” to the end of the subsection. Section 5.