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House of Lords Act 1999. O Ato da Câmara dos Lordes de 1999 ( House of Lords Act 1999 em inglês) (c.34) foi um ato do Parlamento do Reino Unido que teve consentimento real em 11 de novembro de 1999. [ 1] . O ato reformou a Câmara dos Lordes, uma das duas câmaras do Parlamento britânico.
The House of Lords Act 1999 (c. 34) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. The Act was given Royal Assent on 11 November 1999. For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats (hereditary peers); the Act ...
667 hereditary peers had their entitlement to sit in the House of Lords removed by the House of Lords Act 1999, based on the Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom.
TitleTitleNameDate Succeeded [a]The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, ...20 November 1947CrossbencherThe Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, QSO, ...6 February 1952CrossbencherThe Duke of York, CVO23 July 1986CrossbencherThe Earl of Wessex, CVO19 June 1999CrossbencherIt reached a record size of 1,330 in October 1999, immediately before the major Lords reform (House of Lords Act 1999) reduced it to 669, mostly life peers, by March 2000. [68] The chamber's membership again expanded in the following decades, increasing to above eight hundred active members in 2014 and prompting further reforms in ...
Documents to download. House of Lords Act 1999: Twenty Years On (451 KB , PDF) This year is the 20th anniversary of the House of Lords Act 1999. This Act reformed the membership of the House of Lords, removing the majority of hereditary peers. Before the 1999 Act, the House of Lords included over 600 hereditary peers.
O Ato da Câmara dos Lordes de 1999 (House of Lords Act 1999 em inglês) (c.34) foi um ato do Parlamento do Reino Unido que teve consentimento real em 11 de novembro de 1999. [1] O ato reformou a Câmara dos Lordes , uma das duas câmaras do Parlamento britânico.
Hereditary peers are titles and may be elected to serve in the House of Lords under the provisions of the House of Lords Act 1999 and the Standing Orders of the House of Lords. The Act excluded all hereditary peers who were not also life peers except for two holders of royal offices plus ninety other peers, to be chosen by the House.
