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  European Union (Amendment) Bill
  
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  <p>Those voting Content failed to carry an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> to <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=98">clause</a> 8 of the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> that would ensure that within 6 months of the Act receiving the Royal Assent (i.e. becoming law), a referendum would be held to determine whether the Act should continue in force.</p>
  
  <p>It was admitted by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the UKIP Lord who introduced the amendment, that "This amendment would trigger the provision in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a> for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union subject to a referendum."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1456.4/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 7; Not-Contents, 74.</p>
  
  
  
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