PARLIAMENT (QUALIFICATION OF PEERESSES) BILL. [H.L.]

HL Deb 20 April 1926 vol 63 c849

VISCOUNT ASTOR

My Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to enable Peeresses in their own right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, and to move that it be read a first time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read 1^a.—(Viscount Astor.)

On Question, Bill read 1^a, and to be printed.