{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-act-2026/section-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Consequential amendments",
  "text": "(1) In the Peerage Act 1963—\n(a) in section 1(2) (disclaimer of certain hereditary peerages), omit the words from “; and no such instrument” to the end;\n(b) omit section 4 (Scottish peerages) and the italic heading before it;\n(c) omit section 6 (peeresses in own right).\n(2) In the House of Lords Act 1999—\n(a) omit section 3(2) (disqualifications in relation to House of Commons applicable to hereditary peers);\n(b) omit paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (amendment of Peerage Act 1963).\n(3) In the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, in section 42 (tax status of members of House of Lords: transitional provision)—\n(a) omit subsections (3) and (4);\n(b) in subsection (5), omit “If M is not such a person,”;\n(c) in subsection (8)—\n(i) omit “or M succeeds to a peerage”;\n(ii) omit the words from “If subsection (3)(a)” to the end;\n(d) omit subsection (9).\n(4) In the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, in section 4 (effect of ceasing to be a member)—\n(a) in subsection (3), omit “, by virtue of a hereditary peerage”;\n(b) omit subsection (4);\n(c) in subsection (5), omit “other than a hereditary peer”;\n(d) omit subsection (7).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 29.4.2026, see s. 5(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/12/section/4",
    "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."
}