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Amend
the House of Lords Act 1999. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Amendment
of House of Lords Act 1999 |
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(1) |
Section 2 of the House
of Lords Act 1999 (c. 34) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
For subsection (2) substitute— |
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“(2) |
No more than 90 people
shall be excepted from section 1; but anyone |
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excepted
as holder of the office of Earl Marshal, or performing the office
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of
Lord Great Chamberlain, shall not count towards that limit.” |
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(3) |
For subsection (4) substitute— |
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“(4) |
Any vacancy resulting
from the death of an excepted person occurring |
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after
the coming into force of the House of Lords (Amendment) Act
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2007
shall not be filled.” |
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This Act may be cited as
the House of Lords (Amendment) Act 2007. |
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