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The right to sit movement in India has been led by the Kerala-based feminist labor union Penkoottu. [55] The Penkoottu labor union was founded by Viji Palithodi, a tailor-activist from the city of Kozhikode. [56] Kerala passed a right to sit law in 2018, the first law of its kind in India. [57]
An Act to make provision for the creation of life peerages carrying the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords. Citation: 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 21: Dates; Royal assent: 30 April 1958: Other legislation; Amended by: Constitutional Reform Act 2005
Long title: An Act to authorise the disclaimer for life of certain hereditary peerages; to include among the peers qualified to sit in the House of Lords all peers in the peerage of Scotland and peeresses in their own right in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom; to remove certain disqualifications of peers in the peerage of Ireland in relation to the House ...
The remaining two hold their seats by right of the hereditary offices of Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain. These offices are hereditary in themselves, and in recent times have been held by the Dukes of Norfolk and the Barons Carrington respectively. These are the only two hereditary peers whose right to sit is automatic.
The committee unanimously found that the Articles of Union would not be breached by the House of Lords Bill if it were enacted. The bill did receive royal assent, and from 2000, hereditary peers have not had the automatic right to sit in Parliament. Scotland, however, does not remain entirely unrepresented, as a significant number of life peers ...
However, already-elected Irish peers continued to be entitled to sit until their death. Elections for Scottish peers ended in 1963, when all Scottish peers obtained the right to sit in the House of Lords. Under the House of Lords Act 1999, a new form of representative peer was introduced to allow some hereditary peers to stay in the House of Lords.
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In 1999, the Labour government brought forward the House of Lords Act removing the right of several hundred hereditary peers to sit in the House. The Act provided, as a measure intended to be temporary, that 92 people would continue to sit in the Lords by virtue of hereditary peerages, and this is still in effect.