{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/life-peerages-act-1958/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/life-peerages-act-1958/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/21",
  "legislation_title": "Life Peerages Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/life-peerages-act-1958",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power to create life peerages carrying right to sit in the House of Lords.",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) A peerage conferred under this section shall, during the life of the person on whom it is conferred, entitle him—\n(a) to rank as a baron under such style as may be appointed by the letters patent; and\n(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,\nand shall expire on his death.\n(3) A life peerage may be conferred under this section on a woman.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) repealed (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 17 para. 15, Sch. 18 Pt. 5; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(e)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/21/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:09.453094+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."
}