House of Lords

By Yjb

  • Parliament Act 1911

    Removed the ability of the HoL to veto money bills. With other bills, HoC given power to overrule HoL's veto after 2 changes of parliamentary session and two years.

  • Parliament Act 1949

    Amended 1911 act, reducing the time the Lords could delay a bill from two sessions and two years to one session and one year.

  • Life Peerages Act 1958

    Enabled appointment of a new class of peers - would sit and vote in HoL but the honour and rights not hereditary. Supposed to be based on merit.

  • Peerage Act 1963

    Allowed hereditary peers to disclaim their peerage so they could vote and stand for elections to the HoC. Allowed female hereditary peers and hereditary peers in the Peerage of Scotland to sit in HoL without election of Scottish representative peers.

  • Parliament (No. 2) Bill 1968

    Life peers, created hereditary peers and 16 bishops would be able to be voting members of HoL if they attended 1/3 of the sitting and were under 72 at the start of a new parliament.
    Hereditary peers by succession would have remained as non-voting members, their heirs would be excluded from future membership.
    Sitting gov would get right to a majority of voting members.
    Right to delay bill reduced from 1yr to 6 months.
    Government did not proceed with the bill.

  • House of Lords Act 1999

    Limited no of hereditary peers who could sit in HoL to 92. 90 are elected from among those who qualified for hereditary peerages. Party allegiance must remain as it was in 1997 - 42 Con, 28 Crossbenchers, 3 Lib Dems, 2 Lab and 17 non-affiliated.