Effect of ceasing to be a member
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1
This section applies where a person ceases to be a member of the House of Lords in accordance with this Act.
2
The person becomes disqualified from attending the proceedings of the House of Lords (including the proceedings of a Committee of the House).
3
Accordingly, the person shall not be entitled to receive a writ to attend the House (whether under section 1 of the Life Peerages Act 1958, by virtue of the dignity conferred by virtue of appointment as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, by virtue of a hereditary peerage or as a Lord Spiritual) and may not attend the House in pursuance of a writ already received.
4
If the person is a hereditary peer who is excepted from section 1 of the House of Lords Act 1999 by virtue of section 2 of that Act, the person ceases to be excepted from section 1 of that Act (and accordingly section 3 of that Act applies (removal of disqualification on voting in parliamentary elections or being an MP)).
5
If the person is a peer other than a hereditary peer, the person is not, by virtue of that peerage, disqualified for—
a
voting at elections to the House of Commons, or
b
being, or being elected as, a member of that House.
6
In relation to a peer who ceases to be a member of the House of Lords in accordance with this Act, any reference in section 1(3) or (4)(b) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 to a register of parliamentary electors is to be read as including—
a
any register of local government electors in Great Britain, and
b
any register of local electors in Northern Ireland,
which was required to be published on any date before the date on which the peer ceased to be a member.
7
The Standing Orders of the House required by section 2(4) of the House of Lords Act 1999 (filling of vacancies) must make provision requiring the holding of a by-election to fill any vacancy which arises under this Act among the people excepted from section 1 of that Act in consequence of an election.
8
Subject to section 3(7), a person who ceases to be a member of the House of Lords in accordance with this Act may not subsequently become a member of that House.