| House of Lords Bill - Amendments to be debated in the House of Lords - continued |
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| Clause 4 | |||
| BY THE BARONESS BLATCH | |||
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Page 1, line 13, leave out from ("Act") to end of line 14 and insert ("shall not come into force until each House of Parliament has come to a resolution that it should do so. ( ) No resolution referred to in subsection (1) may be made until the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the reform and composition of the House of Lords have been reported on by a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament.") | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Page 1, line 13, leave out ("subsections (3) and (4) below)") and insert ("subsection (3))") | |||
| Page 1, line 13, after ("shall") insert ("not") | |||
| Page 1, line 14, leave out from ("force") to end of line and insert ("on 1st September 2001 or if earlier on the dissolution of the Parliament in which this Act is passed.") | |||
| Page 1, line 14, leave out from ("force") to end of line and insert ("until a report of a Royal Commission on the future composition and role of the House of Lords has been laid before the House of Lords.") | |||
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Page 1, line 14, at end insert-- ("( ) This Act shall cease to have effect on the laying before either House of Parliament a report of a Royal Commission recommending that the composition of the House of Lords be changed and that the hereditary peerage should no longer be a constituent part of the House or that the numbers of hereditary peers entitled to attend, sit and vote in the House of Lords should be reduced or should be unchanged.") | |||
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Page 1, line 17, leave out subsections (3) and (4) and insert-- ("(3) In relation to a peer who is disqualified from attending, sitting or voting in the House of Lords by virtue of section 1, section 4 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (qualifying date for eligibility to be included in the register of electors for use in parliamentary elections) shall have effect with the substitution for the dates 10th October and 15th September of the date 1st January for the purposes only of preparing and publishing the register of electors to be used in an election at which the date of the poll is fixed for a date after section 1 above comes into force but earlier than 16th February 2001 (or such later date as may apply in relation to any particular register by virtue of section 13(3), (4) or (5) of the 1985 Act (delayed date of publication of register in certain cases)).") | |||
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Page 1, line 17, leave out subsections (3) and (4) and insert-- ("(3) For the purposes of section 4 of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (qualifying date for eligibility to be included in the register of electors for use in parliamentary elections) section 1 above shall be deemed to have come into force on the 14th September last preceding the date of the commencement of this section, and any necessary amendments to any electoral register shall be made, before any election is held after that date, on application by any Peer disqualified under section 1. (4) The Secretary of State may, by regulations made by statutory instrument, prescribe the form and content of applications under subsection (3) above and, where such regulations are made, an application shall not be valid unless it complies with the requirements of the regulations.") | |||
| BY THE LORD STRATHCLYDE THE LORD MACKAY OF ARDBRECKNISH THE LORD MACKAY OF DRUMADOON THE LORD KINGSLAND | |||
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Page 1, line 17, leave out subsections (3) and (4) and insert-- ("(3) Holders of hereditary peerages, who are no longer members of the House of Lords by virtue of section 1 of this Act shall be entitled from the end of the Session of Parliament in which this Act is passed to be entered onto the electoral register for any one Parliamentary constituency in which they are normally resident, and at any time after the end of the Session of Parliament in which this Act is passed the holders of hereditary peerages who are so entered on to the register shall be entitled to stand at or vote in elections to the House of Commons.") | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Page 1, line 19, leave out ("or the European Parliament") | |||
| After Clause 4 | |||
| BY THE LORD STRATHCLYDE THE LORD MACKAY OF ARDBRECKNISH THE LORD MACKAY OF DRUMADOON THE LORD KINGSLAND | |||
| Insert the following new Clause-- | |||
| (" .--(1) During the period while the Act remains in force, recommendations by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty for the conferment of life peerages under the Life Peerages Act 1958 shall be made in accordance with the following provisions of this section. (2) Not more than twenty recommendations shall be made during any period of one year. (3) Not more than fifteen of the recommendations referred to in subsection (2) shall be for the conferment of a life peerage on a person who is a member of a registered party; and such recommendations shall be made in proportion to the respective number of votes cast for registered political parties at the previous general election.") | Recommendations for life peerages. | ||
| Clause 5 | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Page 2, line 4, leave out subsection (1) | |||
| BY THE LORD STRATHCLYDE THE LORD MACKAY OF ARDBRECKNISH THE LORD MACKAY OF DRUMADOON THE LORD KINGSLAND | |||
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Page 2, line 4, after ("peerage"") insert-- ("means members of the peerages of Scotland, England, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom other than those created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 or the Life Peerages Act 1958, and") | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Page 2, line 4, at end insert (", the dukedom of Cornwall, the dukedom of Rothsay") | |||
| BY THE LORD STRATHCLYDE THE LORD MACKAY OF ARDBRECKNISH THE LORD MACKAY OF DRUMADOON THE LORD KINGSLAND | |||
| Page 2, line 6, leave out ("House of Lords") and insert ("Parliament") | |||
| After Clause 5 | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Insert the following new Clause-- | |||
| (" .--(1) The Parliament Act 1911 shall be amended as follows. (2) In section 2(1) (restriction on power of House of Lords as to Bills other than money Bills or Bills extending the maximum life of a Parliament beyond five years) after "five years" there shall be inserted "or a Bill to change the composition of the House of Lords". (3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force at the end of the Session of Parliament in which the Bill for this Act was introduced.") | Disapplication of the Parliament Act 1911. | ||
| Insert the following new Clause-- | |||
| (" .--(1) The Parliament Act 1949 (which amended the Parliament Act 1911 so as to shorten to two years the period during which the government must wait before proceeding under the Parliament Act 1911 with a Bill which has been rejected by the House of Lords) shall not apply in relation to the Bill for this Act. (2) This section shall be deemed to have come into force at the end of the Session of Parliament in which the Bill for this Act was introduced.") | Disapplication of the Parliament Act 1949. | ||
| Schedule | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Page 3, line 3, at end insert-- | |||
| ("15 Edw. 2. | Revocation of the New Ordinances 1322. | The word "earls" in the last place where it occurs. | ||
| 31 Henry 8. | The House of Lords Precedence Act 1539. |
In section 4 the words from "above all dukes" to the end. section 7.") |
| Page 3, line 3, at end insert-- | |||
| ("1911 c. 13. | The Parliament Act 1911. | The Preamble.") |
| Page 3, column 3, leave out lines 4 to 18 and insert-- | |||
| ("The Whole Act") |
| BY THE EARL OF MAR AND KELLIE | |||
| Page 3, line 18, column 3, leave out ("4 to") and insert ("5 and") | |||
| Before the Title | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
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Insert the following Preamble-- ("WHEREAS it is expedient that consideration should be given to the composition and powers of the House of Lords: And whereas it is expedient that a Royal Commission should consider and advise Her Majesty's Government with respect to the issues: But whereas it appears that it is not expedient to wait for the report of the Royal Commission and it appears to be expedient to make such provision as in this Act appears to deprive certain Peers of their right to attend, sit and vote in the House of Lords in this present Session of Parliament and for the future before receiving the Royal Commission's report and advice:") | |||
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Insert the following Preamble-- ("WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made for regulating the relations between the two Houses of Parliament: And whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation: And whereas provision will require hereafter to be made by Parliament in a measure effecting such substitution for limiting and defining the powers of the new Second Chamber, but it is expedient to make such provision as in this Act appears for restricting the Peers who may take part in the proceedings of the House of Lords:") | |||
| In the Title | |||
| BY THE LORD TREFGARNE THE EARL OF NORTHESK | |||
| Line 1, leave out from beginning to ("to") in line 2 and insert ("Exclude from the House of Lords temporal peers whose dignity as Lords of Parliament was not conferred in pursuance of the Life Peerages Act 1958 or the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876;") | |||
| Line 2 after ("peerage;") insert ("to allow life peerages to be conferred on disqualified peers;") | |||
| Line 2 leave out ("related") and insert ("consequential") | |||
| Line 2 leave out ("disqualifications") and insert ("qualifications") | |||
| Line 4, after ("Commons") insert ("or the European Parliament") | |||
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