enabled Alec Douglas-Home to sit in the House of Commons as Prime Minister

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The Peerage Act 1963 was a UK law that reformed the hereditary peerage system by allowing peers to disclaim their titles and thus sit in the House of Commons.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom constitutional law
allows disclaimer of peerage titles within a specified time after succession
appliesTo Scottish peers
hereditary peers
peerages of the United Kingdom
associatedWith Alec Douglas-Home
consequenceOfDisclaimer eligibility to stand for election to the House of Commons
loss of right to sit in the House of Lords
country United Kingdom
effect allowed hereditary peers to disclaim their peerages
enabled certain peers to sit in the House of Commons
modified automatic membership of the House of Lords for hereditary peers
reformed aspects of the hereditary peerage system
enactedBy British Parliament
surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
jurisdiction United Kingdom
languageOfDocument English
legalArea constitutional reform
parliamentary law
legalCitation 1963 c. 48
longTitle An Act to amend the law relating to the Peerage
notableUse enabled Alec Douglas-Home to disclaim his earldom
enabled Alec Douglas-Home to sit in the House of Commons as Prime Minister
politicalContext Conservative government of the early 1960s
relatedTo British peerage law
House of Lords reform
royalAssentDate 1963
shortTitle Peerage Act 1963
status in force (as amended)
subjectMatter disclaimer of peerages
eligibility for the House of Commons
hereditary peerage
membership of the House of Lords
typeOfChange statutory reform of peerage rules
yearEnacted 1963

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Peerage Act 1963 consequence enabled Alec Douglas-Home to sit in the House of Commons as Prime Minister