{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-and-governance-act-2010/section-42",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/25",
  "legislation_title": "Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/constitutional-reform-and-governance-act-2010",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Tax status of members of the House of Lords: transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if, before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which this section comes into force, a member of the House of Lords (“M”) gives written notice to the Clerk of the Parliaments that M does not want section 41 to apply to M.\n(2) M shall not be a member of the House of Lords at any time after the notice is given and accordingly—\n(a) M shall not be entitled to receive writs of summons to attend the House, and\n(b) any writ of summons previously issued to M has no further effect.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) ... M ceases to be disqualified by virtue of M's peerage (or dignity) for—\n(a) voting at elections to the House of Commons, or\n(b) being, or being elected as, a member of that House.\n(6) But subsection (5)(b) does not apply before the end of the period of three years beginning with the date on which the notice is given.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) If, after the notice is given, a peerage is conferred on M ..., subsection (2) above does not stop M being entitled to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords by virtue of that peerage. ....\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) A person to whom regulation 4 of the European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1647) applies is to be treated as a member of the House of Lords for the purposes of this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 42(3) omitted (29.4.2026) by virtue of House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (c. 12), ss. 4(3)(a), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 42(4) omitted (29.4.2026) by virtue of House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (c. 12), ss. 4(3)(a), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(5) omitted (29.4.2026) by virtue of House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (c. 12), ss. 4(3)(b), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 42(7) omitted (16.1.2024) by virtue of Elections Act 2022 (c. 37), s. 67(1), Sch. 7 para. 8 (with Sch. 7 para. 13); S.I. 2023/1405, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(8) omitted (29.4.2026) by virtue of House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (c. 12), ss. 4(3)(c)(i), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(8) omitted (29.4.2026) by virtue of House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (c. 12), ss. 4(3)(c)(ii), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 42(9) omitted (29.4.2026) by virtue of House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 (c. 12), ss. 4(3)(d), 5(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/25/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:57.057467+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}