If passed, it will repeal the section of the House of Lords Act 1999 which enabled 92 hereditary peers to continue to sit in the House of Lords when the remaining hereditary peers were excluded from ...

The House of Lords Act 1999 was conspicuous in its incompleteness, by leaving 92 hereditary peers in place. This has led to ...

Its only major provision is to undo the compromise agreed to ensure the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, by which hereditary peers lost their right to sit and vote but an “excepted” group of 90 ...