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  House of Lords Bill - Exclusion of hereditary peers from voting - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected an amendment to the <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/034/1999034.htm">House of Lords Bill</a>. The amendment sought to allow hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords but they would not be allowed to vote in the Lords.</p>
  
  <p>Sir Patrick Cormack's amendment would have inserted the words, highlighted in bold below, into <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/034/99034--a.htm#1">section 1 of the House of Lords Bill</a>:<sup>[1]</sup></p>
  
  <blockquote>"No-one shall be <b>entitled to vote in a division</b> of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage."</blockquote>
  
  <ul><i><li>[1] <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1999/feb/15/exclusion-of-hereditary-peers#column_615">Sir Patrick Cormack</a>, 15 February 1999, House of Commons</li></i></ul>
  
  
  
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