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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-act-2026/section-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Extent and commencement",
  "text": "(1) An amendment or repeal made by section 1, 2 or 4 has the same extent as the provision amended or repealed.\n(2) Section 3, this section and section 6 extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n(3) Section 2, this section and section 6 come into force on the day on which this Act is passed.\n(4) The other provisions of this Act come into force at the end of the Session of Parliament in which this Act is passed.\n(5) Accordingly, any writ of summons issued for the present Parliament in right of a hereditary peerage is of no effect after that Session.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}