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Constitution of the United Kingdom 1297, as amended to 2024
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That Election of Members of Parliament ought to be free. (Bill of Rights 1688, Heading 24)
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That after the said Limitation shall take Effect as aforesaid no Person born out of the Kingdoms of England Scotland or Ireland or the Dominions thereunto belonging (although he be ... made a Denizen (except such as are born of English Parents) shall be capable to be of the Privy Councill or a Member of either House of Parliament or to enjoy any Office or Place of Trust either Civill or Military or to have any Grant of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments from the Crown to himself or to any other or others in Trust for him
... (Act of Settlement 1701, Part III)
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That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament to be stiled The Parliament of Great Britain. (Union with Scotland Act 1706, Art. III)
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1. Her Majesty shall have power by letters patent to confer on any person a peerage for life having the incidents specified in subsection (2) of this section.
2. A peerage conferred under this section shall, during the life of the person on whom it is conferred, entitle him—
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(b) subject to subsection (4) of this section, to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords and sit and vote therein accordingly,
and shall expire on his death
3. A life peerage may be conferred under this section on a woman.
4. Nothing in this section shall enable any person to receive a writ of summons to attend the House of Lords, or to sit and vote in that House, at any time when disqualified therefor by law. (Life Peerages Act 1958, Sec. 1)
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The United Kingdom does not have a codified constitution, its constitutional order exists of multiple Acts of Parliament, court judgments and conventions. For the purposes of this database, the following texts are take into account:
- Magna Carta 1297, as amended to 1969
- Bill of Rights 1688, as amended to 2015
- Act of Settlement 1701, as amended to 2015
- Union with Scotland Act 1706, as amended to 1993
- Life Peerages Act 1958, as amended to 2009
- Senior Courts Act 1981, as amended to 2023
- British Nationality Act 1981, as amended to 2023
- Representation of the People Act 1983, as amended to 2024
- Human Rights Act 1998, as amended to 2024
- Northern Ireland Act 1998, as amended to 2024
- Scotland Act 1998, as amended to 2024
- Civil Contingencies Act 2004, as amended to 2023
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Hereinafter ECHR.
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According to Sec. 1: (1) “In this Act “the Convention rights” means the rights and fundamental freedoms set out in—(a) Articles 2 to 12 and 14 of the Convention,(b) Articles 1 to 3 of the First Protocol, and(c) Article 1 of the Thirteenth Protocol as read with Articles 16 to 18 of the Convention.(2) Those Articles are to have effect for the purposes of this Act subject to any designated derogation or reservation (as to which see sections 14 and 15) (3) The Articles are set out in Schedule 1. …”
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Also refer to Act of Settlement 1701.
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According to Sec. 1: (1) “In this Act “the Convention rights” means the rights and fundamental freedoms set out in—(a) Articles 2 to 12 and 14 of the Convention,(b) Articles 1 to 3 of the First Protocol, and(c) Article 1 of the Thirteenth Protocol as read with Articles 16 to 18 of the Convention.(2) Those Articles are to have effect for the purposes of this Act subject to any designated derogation or reservation (as to which see sections 14 and 15). (3) The Articles are set out in Schedule 1. …”