All Legislation passed since 2000 illegal?
Discussion
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30054915/All-UK-Legislat...
I've seen a few versions of this being linked to from various blogs, but I've not seen it discussed here. The long and short of it seems to be:
Hereditary peers can only be legally dismissed by "specific" legislation, 900 dismissed peers should equal 900 bills.
The dismissal of Peers was as a result of the 1999 Act which was "general" legislation and therefore illegal.
All subsequent laws therefore illegal.
Any constitutional experts with a view?
I've seen a few versions of this being linked to from various blogs, but I've not seen it discussed here. The long and short of it seems to be:
Hereditary peers can only be legally dismissed by "specific" legislation, 900 dismissed peers should equal 900 bills.
The dismissal of Peers was as a result of the 1999 Act which was "general" legislation and therefore illegal.
All subsequent laws therefore illegal.
Any constitutional experts with a view?
Our constitution is largely custom and practise, so I suspect this will be ignored with great enthusiasm by all and sundry, especially as the media is distracted by the shiny bauble that is a hung parliament; the gift that keeps giving. If CMD gets into Downing St. it might be looked at as a shortcut to binning all the extraneous ste legislation heaped upon us by Labour, but I bet £50 they will not bin the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act...
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