House of Lords - Privileges - First Report (original) (raw)

Privileges - First Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 18 October 1999.

REFERENCE AS TO WHETHER THE HOUSE OF LORDS BILL (AS AMENDED ON REPORT) WOULD, IF ENACTED, AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THOSE HEREDITARY PEERS WHO HAVE ANSWERED TO THEIR WRIT OF SUMMONS BEFORE THE BILL RECEIVES ROYAL ASSENT TO CONTINUE TO SIT AND VOTE THROUGHOUT THE PARLIAMENT IN WHICH THE BILL IS ENACTED

CONTENTS

Orders of Reference, etc.

Minutes of Proceedings

Report

Opinions

Appendices:

1—Statement of Issues agreed between the Lord Mayhew of Twysden and Her Majesty's Government

2—Case for the Lord Mayhew of Twysden; propositions of leading counsel; and notes to accompany the submission of junior counsel (together with an appendix showing the form of a Writ in Acceleration, a Warrant for the issue of a Writ in Acceleration and a Writ of Attendance)

APPENDIX - Form of a Writ in Acceleration

3—Case for Her Majesty's Government

4—Documents appended to the cases:

(1)House of Lords Bill as brought from the Commons on 17 March 1999 (HL Bill 38)

(2)Explanatory Notes to the House of Lords Bill as brought from the Commons on 17 March 1999 (HL Bill 38-EN)

(3)House of Lords Bill as amended on Report, ordered to be printed on 1 July 1999 (HL Bill 76)

(4)Extracts from the White Paper `Modernising Parliament—Reforming the House of Lords' (Cm 4183), pp 7, 27-30

(5)Extracts from the Manifesto of the Labour Party for the General Election of 1997, pp 32-33

(6)Standing Orders of the House of Lords relating to public business (1994) (HL Paper 15), Nos 20, 74-78

(7)Extracts from the Companion to the Standing Orders and guide to the Proceedings of the House of Lords (1994), pp 3, 204, 215

(8)Standing Order of the House of Lords relating to public business (1958)No 21

(9)Opinion by junior counsel for the Lord Mayhew of Twysden, 14 April 1999

(10)

(1) Writ of Summons (On the holding of a general election)

(2) Writ of Summons (Issued during the Parliament)

(3) Writ of Summons (Issued during the Prorogation of the Parliament)

(11)Letter from the Treasury Solicitor to Herbert Smith, 15 September 1999

(12)Proclamation by Her Majesty the Queen for dissolving the present Parliament and declaring the calling of another, 9 April 1997

5—List of authorities cited during the hearing

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

Thursday 14 October 1999
Monday 18 October 1999