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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-act-2026/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/12",
  "legislation_title": "House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-act-2026",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Resignation",
  "text": "In section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 (resignation), after subsection (4) insert—\n“(5) Where a notice under this section is given and signed by a person on behalf of a peer who lacks capacity to give or sign the notice, the notice must be given and signed in accordance with Standing Orders of the House.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 5(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/12/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:41:54.381145+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."
}