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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BBC: Commons Speaker calls for sweeping new committee powers
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.
The expectation thus far - among those who considered the point at all - was that independence would require to be enacted by a Westminster statute, not least because the present position is that the constitution is reserved to the UK Parliament under the Scotland Act 1998.
This was because the regulations behind the schemes did not comply with the Act of Parliament that gave the DWP the power to introduce the programme.
But Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, the tsar charged by Parliament with ensuring the act is enforced, has said he wants doctors to go a step further and publish individual data.
In line with the Scotland Act, the Scottish Parliament elections are being overseen by UK Government ministers.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Court rules on prison voting ban
The need for an act of Parliament prevented the axe falling immediately, so it wasn't a case of "don't bother coming in tomorrow", but after 10 truly depressing months watching friends and colleagues leave the building for good, I took voluntary redundancy the following March.
If it is passed then Royal Assent is given and the bill becomes an Act of the Scottish Parliament.
Under the terms of the Act, the Scottish Parliament is able to pass laws on issues such as health, education, transport, justice, enterprise, culture, social justice, public services and the environment.
In 1918, The Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence as a sovereign state.
The auditor general position for Scotland was established by the Scotland Act, which created the Scottish Parliament.
MPs will be asked to approve an order under the Scotland Act, to allow the Scottish Parliament to hold a referendum on independence.
"In the 1967 Act what Parliament set out to do was to balance two objectives, conscious that abortion was a controversial matter, " he said.
The equivalent act of Parliament in England and Wales also stresses that this is purely a "honorary" title, although it does not feel it necessary to rule out grazing sheep.
Your commitment was recently reinforced with the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act passed by the parliament last August.
The clause states that EU law only has effect in the UK as a result of legislation passed by Parliament - the 1972 European Communities Act.
The Boundary Commission published its initial proposals following an act of parliament earlier in the year.
应用推荐