So the government would then have to use the Parliament Act to over-ride the Lords.
If that happens, reform looks highly probable, because the Commons can then force the bill into law via the Parliament Act.
The Commons, made up of elected MPs, can over-rule decisions made in the Lords, where members are not elected, by invoking the Parliament Act.
It believes that for the government to use legitimately the Parliament Act the Bill needs to have been rejected by peers three times not twice.
It argues that the 1949 Parliament Act is unlawful too, because it was rammed through the Lords using an earlier version of itself, the 1911 Parliament Act.
The point I was making which still holds good as far as I know is that the lords are the guardians of Section 2 of the Parliament Act (1911).
With a huge majority in the Commons, the government will be able to use the Parliament Act to force hereditaries to mothball their ermine by early in 2000.
As to the use of the Parliament Act, well this Bill is still before the House of Lords at the moment so it would be premature to discuss that.
Other topics covered included the operation of the courier industry during the 2012 Olympic Games, the centenary of the 1911 Parliament Act and the "overstretch" of the armed forces.
In general, governments of all stripes have been chary of rolling out the heavy artillery in the Parliament Act and forcing through a measure against the will of the Lords.
And the final battle, if he gets that far, could require him to invoke the Parliament Act, the mechanism by which the Commons can over-ride the Lords, to push his changes through.
The same bill could then be re-introduced in the Commons in 2013 and, under the terms of the Parliament Act, would become law in the form it left the Commons, once the Lords amended or rejected it.
New restrictions on the powers of the Lords were introduced in the 1949 Parliament Act which reduced the time peers could delay a bill from two years over three parliamentary sessions to one year over two parliamentary sessions.
While ministers had threatened to use the Parliament Act to push the age of consent measure through the Lords, the same act cannot be used to repeal Section 28 because the legislation began its current parliamentary passage in the upper house.
The lecture came as part of Parliament Week, which is an initiative to try to connect the public with their legislature during the centenary year of the 1911 Parliament Act - the basis of the relationship between the Lords and the Commons.
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This time the government will probably use the Parliament Act to ram it through the hostile upper house something that has happened only three times since 1949 (when a new version of the act came in), and then only for important laws on the age of consent, war crimes and constitutional change.
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Voters will choose between the two in a referendum, and Parliament will act accordingly.
Lord McCluskey said: "I find it deeply offensive that we have an act of parliament, a devolution act, which says the apex court in Belfast decides these questions and the apex court in London decides these questions but we can't trust the Scottish judges to do it".
In 1918, The Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence as a sovereign state.
The Boundary Commission published its initial proposals following an act of parliament earlier in the year.
But he accepted Parliament was unlikely to act, as most MPs feared the consequences of taking on the press.
An Act of Parliament was needed so that the Cob could be built.
The ferries are protected by a Royal Charter and it would need an act of parliament to end the service.
But to make the change requires an act of parliament and that is going to take at least three years.
Lord Neill would prefer the code to be enshrined in an act of Parliament to give civil servants more protection.
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This would not require an Act of Parliament but there would need to be a debate in both Houses of Parliament.
Lloyd George replaced the Third Home Rule Bill, now in law as a suspended Act of Parliament, with a fourth Bill.
"In the 1967 Act what Parliament set out to do was to balance two objectives, conscious that abortion was a controversial matter, " he said.
By the 1920s the canals were no longer being used, and in 1939 Droitwich Council applied for an Act of Parliament to abandon them.
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